Caroline Fields Hitch Takamine Beach (August 5, 1866 – November 25, 1954) was an American socialite and philanthropist.

She married Japanese chemist Takamine Jōkichi in 1887, and in 1935 donated a shrine in Arizona to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson in his memory.

In the 1930s she designed, built, and gave the Shrine of St. Rita in the Desert, a small chapel in Vail, Arizona,[10] to the Diocese of Tucson in memory of her first husband; It is "the only Catholic Church in the United States built in memory of a Japanese citizen".

[11][12] Hitch met her first husband, chemist Takamine Jōkichi, in 1884, at the World Cotton Centennial Exposition in New Orleans.

[16] The Takamine family moved to the United States in 1890; they lived in Peoria, Chicago, and New York, while her husband was working in whisky processing using his patented method, and later studying adrenaline.

[19] Caroline Hitch Takamine remarried in 1926, to one of her son's friends, a young rancher named Charles Pablo Beach, in Tucson, Arizona.

[18] Agnes de Mille wrote about Caroline Takamine Beach in her 1978 memoir, Where the Wings Grow.