St. Elizabeth's Chapel was built in the early 1920's by descendants of Alexander Hamilton and J.P. Morgan in memory of Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, the daughter of William Pierson Hamilton and Juliet Pierpont Morgan Hamilton. Elizabeth was born in 1908 and died shortly after her tenth birthday in the influenza epidemic that swept across the country at the end of World War I.

The Chapel was designed by architects Trowbridge & Livingston, with stained glass by Henry Wynd Young.  It evokes the character of the numerous estate chapels which dot the English countryside.  As is often the case in such family chapels, several Hamilton family members are interred in crypts beneath the flagstone floor, with Elizabeth's body beneath the altar itself. The walls also have commemorative plaques for family members who were buried elsewhere.

The intent of the Hamiltons was never for St. Elizabeth's to be a private family chapel, and it has been in continuous use as a place of public worship since it opened its doors in 1922.  The present congregation includes several families whose members have worshipped there for three generations, as well as people from surrounding communities who have been drawn by the combination of the chapel's idyllic setting, its adherence to traditional Anglican worship and Biblical teaching, and its friendly people.