“It was in 1873
that the need for a Sunday school and church services for the lake area was
noted by Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Rapeleye, summer residents of Kidders on Cayuga
Lake. Prompted by this thought, the Rapeleye’s started the church service in
the summer home, Glenwood on the lake.” [Geneva Daily Times 8/30/1954]
The article
continues with the comment that by 1879 the congregation had outgrown the lodge
space, and Mr. Rapeleye built “a new building, called Glenwood Union Chapel, to
serve Kidders and vicinity on Cayuga Lake.”
Summer services
were held in the chapel for 40 years, until 1919. It was in that year that “the
Sheldrake Methodist Church Chapel was struck by lightning and totally destroyed…Trustees
of Glenwood Union Chapel…moved the Glenwood Chapel up the Sheldrake hill
overlooking Cayuga’s waters,” so they could
have year-round services.
As noted in the
program copy, the anniversary services would be the last regular Sunday service
for the summer. Sunday School classes would continue year-round.
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| Cover of the celebration program. Interlaken Historical Society collections, gift from Diane Schmidt Barlow |
Dewitt’s Diary,
Sunday, August 29, 1954
Cloudy and south
wind. C. Pell and I went to foot of lake and stayed long enough to get a shower
and high south wind.
Took our dinner
down to the lake to Lem’s today. We got enough rain to lay the dust.
Junior B is
drilling a well, down 110 feet no water yet. [Dewtt’s nephew Myron Bassette
Jr.]
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