It was dedicated to Joan of Arc on 26 May 1966, after it had been moved from its previous location on Long Island, New York.

Legend relates that Joan prayed to a statue of the Virgin Mary while standing on a flat stone that is now behind the altar.

[4] After World War I, the young architect Jacques Couëlle rediscovered the chapel and negotiated its transfer to the Brookville, New York, home of Gertrude Hill Gavin, the daughter of James J. Hill, best known as the founder of the Great Northern Railway.

[5] The chapel was shipped to Brookville in 1927 and reconstructed there for its new owner by John Russell Pope.

After Gavin died, her estate passed to Marc B. Rojtman and his wife, Lillian.