[ 38 ] The Chapel of St. James the Fisherman

In the 1950s, Wellfleet Episcopalians, under leadership of Rev. James Pike, Episcopal Bishop of California, began meeting for worship services in private homes. Later, during the summer months they met in the Congregational Church. Construction of the Chapel of St. James the Fisherman, designed as a church in the round by architect Olav Hammarstrom, began in 1956 on land donated by Mr. & Mrs. Carey Melville and Mrs. Melville Arnold. The Chapel was dedicated in September, 1957, by the Rt. Rev. A. Phelps Stokes Jr.