[1] The chapel is set on the east side of Claremont Avenue in a residential part of Arlington Heights, on the grounds of the Youth Villages-Germaine Lawrence Campus.

[2] The chapel is a two-story roughly rectangular stone structure, oriented east-west, with a gabled roof.

[2] The Society of St. John the Evangelist (Cowley Fathers) established an orphanage on this property in 1910, and initially held its religious services in a small wood-frame chapel.

In 1928 the property was repurposed to become the St. Anne's School for Girls, named for the order of nuns who ran the facility.

[2] In 1978 the nuns began to separate the religious aspect from the school, which had come to serve predominantly emotionally troubled children.