<p>The Media Armory, is a historic National Guard Armory located in Media, Delaware County, Pennsylvania built in 1908 for Company H of the 6th Infantry Regiment of the Pennsylvania National Guard.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The original building was designed by William Lightfoot Price and M H. McLanahan in 1908 as the Armory for Company H of the 6th Infantry Regiment of the Pennsylvania National Guard. The 2 story structure is primarily constructed of stone and steel and has a basement. The "structure&#39;s intended military use is expressed by its heavily buttressed walls, broken battlements, and low flanking towers," according to a plaque affixed to the building by the Media Borough Council in 1984. Company H served in Mexican Border Expedition, and re-designated as Company H, 111th Infantry, 28th Infantry Division, in France in World War I, and as Company M, in the South Pacific in World War II.</p><br>
<p>The armory was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 22, 1989.</p><br>
<p>The entire building was renovated and restored in 2004. The upper level was converted to retail space and is currently occupied by the grocery store chain Trader Joe&#39;s. Solar panels were added on the roof at that time.</p><br>
<h2>Pennsylvania Veterans Museum</h2><br>
<p>The Pennsylvania Veterans Museum opened in 2005 on Veterans Day in the basement level of the building. Exhibits include dioramas of the D-Day invasion and the Korean War, a mini-movie theater, military uniforms, weapons, photographs and oral histories of veterans&#39; experiences.</p><br>
<p>The John Borland House is a historic house located on Market Street in Cape Vincent, Jefferson County, New York.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It is a -story, five-bay-wide, wood-framed single dwelling with a gabled roof. It was constructed between 1818 and 1828 in a vernacular Federal style. It has a -story ell attached to the south side that exhibits Greek Revival details. In 1937, Stuyvesant Fish donated the house to the village for use as a community center.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 27, 1985.</p><br>
<p>The James Buckley House is a historic house located on Joseph Street in Cape Vincent, Jefferson County, New York.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It is a -story frame structure built in about 1845 in the Gothic Cottage style. The central section is flanked by one-story wings with parapets hiding the shed roof.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 27, 1985.</p><br>
<p>The E. K. Burnham House is a historic house located in Cape Vincent, Jefferson County, New York.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It is an Italianate style brick residence built in 1870. It has a three-story, three-bay-wide main block with a central belvedere. Also on the property are a garage and two boathouses built in 1919.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 27, 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Xavier Chevalier House is a historic house located on Gosier Road in Cape Vincent, Jefferson County, New York.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The limestone farmhouse was built in 1852 by Xavier Chevalier, and consists of three sections: a front, gabled, three-bay wide -story main block; a gabled, one-story side wing; and a small cinder block lean-to. Also on the property is a mid-19th-century saltbox barn and a mid-19th-century limestone smokehouse.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 27, 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Nicholas Cocaigne House is a historic house and farm complex located at Cape Vincent in Jefferson County, New York.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The limestone farmhouse was built in 1839 and has three sections: a -story, three-bay main block; a single-story rear wing; and a one-story gabled, wooden ell off the wing. Modifications of the house in the 1920s introduced Colonial Revival details. Also on the property is a mid-19th-century barn and three sheds.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 27, 1985.</p><br>
<p>Reuter Dyer House is a historic home and farm complex located at Cape Vincent in Jefferson County, New York. The limestone farmhouse was built about 1839 and has three sections: a -story, three-bay main block; a 1-story side wing; and a 1-story wooden ell projecting from the wing. Also on the property are two 19th-century barns.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Captain Louis Peugnet House is a historic home located at Cape Vincent in Jefferson County, New York. The limestone farmhouse was built about 1837 and is a -story five-bay structure with a central entry and a steeply pitched gable roof. It features an open porch with four square wooden columns that extends across the full width of the facade. Also on the property is a 19th-century barn.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Claude Vautrin House is a historic home and farm complex located at Cape Vincent in Jefferson County, New York. The limestone farmhouse is a two-story structure with a square main block with a hipped roof and a one-story wooden rear wing with a gable roof, built in 1855 in the Italianate style. Also on the property are six contributing 19th century outbuildings: a barn with a silo, four sheds, and a smokehouse.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Davenport City Hall is the official seat of government for the city of Davenport, Iowa, United States. The building was constructed in 1895 and is situated on the northeast corner of the intersection of Harrison Street  and West Fourth Street in Downtown Davenport. It was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 and on the Davenport Register of Historic Properties in 1993. In 2020 it was included as a contributing property in the Davenport Downtown Commercial Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Davenport started to outgrow its previous city hall, which had been built on Brady Street from 1857 to 1858. The role of city government expanded during the mayoral administration of Henry Vollmer (1893-1896). Among his major achievements were several public works projects. Streets were paved in the older sections of the city and developers laid out new subdivisions around the perimeter.</p><br>
<p>In 1895, in the midst of a deep national economic depression, Davenport built an ornate new City Hall. The cost was about $90,000 — an astronomical sum at that time — and the City constructed the new building without issuing any municipal bonds. Local legend has long suggested that the city retired the debt so quickly by taxing the citys brothels, but the fines levied against the brothels accounted for only between $7,000-$9,000 per year, just a portion of the financial windfall the city reaped in the mid-1890s. The bulk of the funds came from a new state law (the "mulct tax") which applied to the citys 150 illegal saloons and amounted to around $50,000 per year. This tax allowed for construction not only of City Hall, but also paved streets and a new sewer system, and from 1902–08, the city eliminated its property taxes altogether.</p><br>
<p>Besides Vollmer there were two other noteworthy Davenport mayors associated with this city hall. Alfred C. Mueller served the city during two separate periods (1910-1916, 1922–24). He was responsible for initiating the citys building code, sewer planning and construction, street paving, and planning and implementing improvements to the riverfront. Dr. C.L. Barewald (1920-1922) was the citys first Socialist mayor. Davenports German community had become a political force by the early 20th century and they had become disenchanted with the Democratic Partys war stance that lead the country into World War I and the anti-German sentiments that resulted. They were also opposed to the Republican Partys support for national prohibition of alcohol so they threw their support behind the Socialist Party of America. Two years prior to Barewalds election as mayor two Socialists were elected as aldermen and they were reelected in 1920. During his term as mayor, Barewald began several public works projects that put people to work and enhanced city improvements. The municipal natatorium was built, new streets were opened and a major sewer was completed. Barewald and the other two Socialists were overwhelmingly voted out of office in 1922 because of the debts these projects and others incurred.</p><br>
<p>The prohibition of alcohol was a major issue in the city of Davenport from the 1840s until national prohibition became official in 1919. The activities of the local temperance movement thrived in the 1880s and were renewed during the Progressive Era, especially between 1906 and 1916. Local ordinances were passed that exempted the city of Davenport from state prohibition laws and mayors, especially Ernst Claussen, stated that the citizens personal liberties would not be violated. Debates were held in the city council and among other civic groups until Iowas prohibition amendment was passed in 1916. It was reinforced by the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1919. However, the illegal production and consumption of alcohol continued in the city.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>City hall was designed by Davenport architect John W. Ross, and built by Morrison Bros. Construction Company. The 60 by, four-story building is constructed of Ohio Berea sandstone in the Richardsonian Romanesque style.</p><br>
<p>The former Trinity Episcopal Church is located on NY 23B in Claverack, New York, United States. It is a Shingle Style church building from the early 20th century.</p><br>
<p>It replaced the church&#39;s second building, destroyed by fire, which had itself been a replacement for another fire-destroyed building. In 1975 the church moved out and sold it. Changes were made to convert it into a residence but it retains its historic integrity. In 1997 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The former church is on the north side of Route 23B, set back somewhat from the road. It is located near the west side of a 1.3 acre lot with tall, mature trees, particularly along the driveway in the center of the lot. To the east along the highway are institutional public buildings such as a school, library and a memorial chapel. To the west are other houses, many from the 18th and centuries. There is one other building, a garage not considered a contributing resource to the National Register listing.</p><br>
<p>The building itself is a frame structure on a stone foundation capped by a steeply pitched gable roof. At the south (front) end, the roof extends to an overhanging hood meant to shelter the bell originally there, a feature called a wolf dak. It is sided in board-and-batten on its lower sections and wood shingles above. A datestone at the corner gives 1901 as the date of construction.</p><br>
<p>On the southern facade are a group of five stepped stained glass windows. At the south end of the east facade is a projecting vestibule for the main entrance with a gabled roof. One stained glass window lights it from the south. The flat-arched windows along the rest of the profile also retain their stained glass.</p><br>
<p>There are three similar windows in the north elevation. Their stained glass has been replaced with clear glass. The west side has a small transept, with a stained glass oculus in its gable field above another group of three windows. There is a secondary entrance on the west elevation of the wing. At the south end of the facade is a shed-roofed addition.</p><br>
<p>Inside, the nave, now the house&#39;s main block, is still open to the roof. King post trusses are still visible at either corner of the transept, in natural wood finish contrasting with the dark-stained ceiling. Other wood supports are visible and serve both decorative and structural functions. Open lofts in the front and rear expand the available living space.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>There was no Episcopal presence in Claverack, whose population descended predominantly from Dutch settlers who worshipped primarily at the Reformed Dutch Church, until 1853. That year The Rev. Fred T. Tiffany came to the hamlet as a missionary. He gained enough followers to formally establish a parish three years later, in 1856, which he served as rector.</p><br>
<p>Two years after that, the parish raised $5,000 ($ in contemporary dollars) to build a church on the current site, land donated by the Philip family. The cellar of the current church suggests it had a similar footprint. Tiffany died in 1863, three years before the church was finished and consecrated. By then the church had replaced him with the first of several rectors.</p><br>
<p>Contemporary accounts suggest there may have been two fires in the late 19th century that necessitated the rebuilding of the church. A late 1890s history of Columbia County mentions an 1891 fire, and when the Hudson Daily Register reported on the opening of the 1901 structure it describes the fire as having occurred the previous year.</p><br>
<p>The current church may have been built by an architect who designed other, similar Episcopal churches elsewhere in the country. He has not been identified; research continues. Aesthetically it is mostly in the Shingle Style of the late 19th century. Its use of medieval lines anticipates some aspects of the American Craftsman style that would become prominent within a decade of its construction.</p><br>
<p>It was used as a church until 1975. At that point many of the overtly religious aspects of the interior, such as the pews, organ, baptismal font, altar and the three stained glass windows in the rear triptych (the only ones in the building to have religious imagery on them) were sold. Whether the church moved to a new building or simply dissolved is not known.</p><br>
<p>It was converted into a house shortly thereafter, with great sensitivity to its prior use. A cellar door has been added next to the vestibule on the east side, resulting in the removal of the stained glass window on the north side of that vestibule. There have been no other significant changes to the structure since then.</p><br>
<p>The Glen Building is a historic commercial building located at Cape Vincent in Jefferson County, New York.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It is a two-story, L-shaped, wood-frame building with a low-pitched shed roof and Italianate detailing. It was built in 1887 as a combination family home and business. A small detached paint shop is also on the property.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 27, 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Jean Philippe Galband du Fort House is a historic house located on James Street in Cape Vincent, Jefferson County, New York.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1818, it is a -story, frame vernacular residence with Greek Revival detailing. It consists of two rectangular gabled blocks joined with a hyphen and a 1-story side wing on the north side. The south block contains a drawing room with a coffered ceiling inset with 24 original oil-on-canvas paintings, including those of George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette. The drawing room also contains the original wallpaper, chandelier, fireplace, and mirror.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 27, 1985.</p><br>
<p>General Sacket House is a historic home located at Cape Vincent in Jefferson County, New York. It was built in 1872–75 and is a three-story, three-bay-wide, 25-room Second Empire style residence. It consists of a rectangular three-story main block with a two-story rear wing. The main block features a mansard roof pierced by round-headed dormers. Also on the property is the original two-story carriage house.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Cornelius Sacket House is a historic home located at Cape Vincent in Jefferson County, New York. It was built about 1900 and is a -story Dutch Colonial Revival–style residence with a gambrel roof and clapboard siding. It features a 1-story open porch with five fluted Ionic columns. Also on the property is a boathouse and formal sunken garden.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Roxy Hotel is a historic hotel located at Cape Vincent in Jefferson County, New York. It is a red brick structure consisting of two sections: a three-story, eight bay main block and a two-story, four bay side wing. It was built in 1894, and has remained in continuous use as a hotel and center of the local tourist trade. The hotel was restored in 2011 by Michael Treanor, into 16 hotel rooms and an Irish Pub called Monaghan&#39;s Irish Pub.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Union Hotel, also known as Barrow&#39;s Hotel, is a historic hotel located at Sackets Harbor in Jefferson County, New York. It is a -story stone building, 51 feet by 69 feet, over a full basement. The original structure was built in 1817–1818. The interior features distinctive Federal woodwork. It functioned as a hotel into the 1860s, then was used as a Masonic Lodge. In 1972 New York State acquired the building and rehabilitated it for use as the Visitor Center for the Sackets Harbor Battlefield State Historic Site. In July 2000, an addition was built and it was converted to serve as the Seaway Trail Discovery Center.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>Elisha Camp House is a historic home located at Sackets Harbor in Jefferson County, New York. It was built about 1808–1815 and is a -story red brick building that is a remarkably well preserved example of an elegant Federal-style dwelling. It features flat, geometric carving; Adamesque ornament; Palladian windows; elliptical fanlights; and a quality of reserve and refinement.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Vincent LeRay House, also known as The Stone House, is a historic home located at Cape Vincent in Jefferson County, New York. It is located within the boundaries of the Broadway Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>Construction and Physical Properties</h2><br>
<p>The home was built in 1815 by James D. LeRay for his son, Vincent. The home is a -story, five-by-four-bay stone building. Also on the property is a limestone boathouse, a 2-story stucco cottage, and board and batten garage.</p><br>
<h2>Historical significance</h2><br>
<p>Vincent left the house vacant when he moved into his father&#39;s mansion in LeRaysville. In 1873, Vincent sold the house to the Peugnet family. The home remained in their possession until the 20th century. The home was later listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 15, 1973.</p><br>
<p>LeRay  Mansion is a National Register Listed Historic District located in Fort Drum, NY. The LeRay Mansion was originally built as the estate for James LeRay de Chaumont. James LeRay originally came to the North Country in order to regain his family’s fortune. Jacques Donatien LeRay de Chaumont, James LeRay’s father, was a French entrepreneur who loaned a considerable portion of his fortune to support the American Revolution. Jacques LeRay was the single largest financial supporter of the American Revolution from France, outspending the French Government. This earned Jacques LeRay the name French “Father of the American Revolution.” Jacques LeRay was a gracious host to members of the new Continental government at his estate in Passy, France. These guests included John Adams, Silas Deane, Arthur Lee, James Madison, and Benjamin Franklin, the latter of whom taught English to James LeRay.</p><br>
<p>Jacques never made the journey to America, but by the time the American Revolutionary War ended, Jacques had nearly bled his fortune dry in his support. Instead of making the journey himself, Jacques sent his son, James, on his behalf to collect their fortune. Despite years of effort, James was never able to secure full compensation for his father&#39;s loan. Benjamin Franklin wrote an impassioned letter to George Washington that was able to secure a partial payment.</p><br>
<p>While James LeRay was pleading for payment on his family&#39;s loan, he met and married a wealthy woman named Grace Coxe. The Coxe family made their own fortune through a successful newspaper business in New Jersey. After their marriage, James became a naturalized American citizen and believed he could reclaim his family fortune by investing in land in Northern New York. Grace Coxe and James LeRay had three children Therese, Vincent, and Alexander.</p><br>
<p>James was able to obtain ownership of thousands of acres within the tri-county area in the North Country (Jefferson, Lewis, and St. Lawrence County) which included over 360,000 acres of land. Setting aside 200 acres for his estate, James LeRay built the LeRay Mansion.</p><br>
<p>The first mansion was built around 1808. According to numerous records, there was a fire at this mansion in the 1820s. Some historians argue whether the fire destroyed the first mansion, and it is unclear whether the building that stands today was a rebuild or a completely different mansion. In either case, a mansion was rebuilt around 1826–1827. While there were still Native Americans residing in the area, there were no significant European-American settlements or infrastructure. James LeRay intended to rebuild his familys fortune by selling off tracts of his land to build European-American settlements. James LeRay was not discriminatory towards Christian religious denominations and encouraged settlement of Quakers, Catholics, and Protestant denominations. He gave them land for their congregations churches and meeting houses. James LeRay was ultimately unsuccessful in reclaiming his family&#39;s fortune and almost went bankrupt. He transferred the ownership of the estate to his oldest son, Vincent, for whom Cape Vincent is named. Vincent owned the Mansion briefly before selling the property to Jules Rene Payen a geologic engineer, gun-powder chemist, and fellow French immigrant.</p><br>
<p>The LeRay Mansion remained in the Payen family for several generations, however their surname changed from Payen to Phelps to Anderson as the house was passed down through the family&#39;s daughters. While the estate was in the possession of the Anderson family in 1936, the NY State Land Bank foreclosed on the property.</p><br>
<p>In 1936, Colonel Harold Remington (Ret.), a local resident of Watertown, NY and a World War I veteran, purchased the property and carried out repairs and renovations. Some of the repairs included adding electricity and plumbing to the Mansion. The house was only briefly in the possession of the Remington family as in 1941, the US Army took ownership of the estate for the expansion of Pine Camp. In 1941, with the outbreak of World War II, the federal government granted the expansion of Pine Camp by 75,000 acres. This expansion displaced not only the Remington family from the LeRay Mansion, but over 525 families from five villages and over 360 farms: Sterlingville; Woods Mills; Lewisburg; LeRaysville; Alpina.</p><br>
<p>Over the years, the Army used the Mansion for temporary lodging and an officer&#39;s club. When the 10th Mountain Division was reactivated on Fort Drum in 1984, General Carpenter was asked to live at the LeRay Mansion. This briefly gave the LeRay Mansion the nickname, “the General’s Mansion.” In 1988, General Carpenter gave the mansion over to the Army Morale, Welfare, and Recreation (MWR) program. MWR used the mansion as a “Bed and Breakfast” style lodging for visiting VIPs and officials. The Lodging Program generously furnished the Mansion with pieces in keeping with the style of the early nineteenth century and the Commanding General began a tradition of hosting members of the community there for holiday celebrations.</p><br>
<p>In 2018, the LeRay Mansion was turned over to the Fort Drum Public Works Environmental Cultural Resources Program, in part due to the efforts of LTG Piatt. Today, the space is used as a free event space for the greater Fort Drum community and museum. As a part of their mission to identify, protect, and manage the ancestral places and historic era archeological sites, Cultural Resources works to preserve one of Fort Drum&#39;s most valued historic resources, the LeRay Mansion. There are daily tours held at the LeRay Mansion and the surrounding grounds where anyone is welcome. The Mansion is open on weekdays from 0900 to 1500. Check out the Leray Mansion website (leraymansion.com) for questions, to reserve the mansion for an event, or to check out current and future exhibits at the LeRay Mansion.</p><br>
<h2>Images</h2><br>
<p>Paddock Mansion is a historic home located at Watertown in Jefferson County, New York. Since 1922, it has been the headquarters of the Jefferson County Historical Society. It was built in 1876 and is a -story brick structure on a high basement in the Stick / Eastlake style. It features a 3-story tower on the southeast corner and the eaves, gables, balconies, and front porch are supported by elaborate turned millwork and chamfered brackets and posts.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Ingleside is a historic home located at Alexandria Bay in Jefferson County, New York. It is a large frame and stone residence built about 1900 in an eclectic Shingle style. It is a -story summer home. Also on the property is an icehouse, combined boathouse / guesthouse, private island, square gazebo, terraced pool, and pumphouse with observation deck.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Poughkeepsie Meeting House  is a historic Quaker  meeting house at 249 Hooker Avenue in Poughkeepsie, New York. It was built in 1927, and is a two-story, rectangular, Colonial Revival style brick building, with a basement. It has a gable roof and projecting entrance pavilion.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The design of the meeting house is unusual, having swayed away from the designs of traditional Quaker meeting houses. It was a result of the reunification of the two groups of Quakers that had initially separated from a schism in 1827, where two thirds of Quakers abandoned the philosophies of their founder, George Fox, and instead turned to the ideals taught by Long Island preacher, Elias Hicks. By 1926, when it was time to construct a new meeting house in Poughkeepsie, the number of local “Hicksite” Quakers was diminishing, so many had joined the Orthodox Quakers. Alfred Bussel, a New York City architect, was chosen to design a meeting house that appealed to all members. Since he had studied at Haverford College, a Quaker school, Bussell was very familiar with the Society of Friends traditions. One branch had suggested a church-like structure with steeple, organ, and stained-glass windows, while the other wanted a more traditional style meeting house, i.e. evoking simplicity, equality, community, and peace. The design therefore was a unity between the two branches, a sign of what was to come with the official reunification in the 1950s. The result is a simple, colonial revival building without stained-glass or any sort of liturgical ornamentation or symbols, as per Quaker tradition, but had a single front door (Quaker meeting houses had separate entrances for men and women) and an interior layout akin to a church; a central aisle with rows of pews on either side all facing the front of the building.</p><br>
<p>Smith Metropolitan AME Zion Church is a historic African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church located at Smith and Cottage Streets in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York. It is the oldest predominantly African-American church in Dutchess County, NY. The church was a part of The Underground Railroad led by Civil Rights leader Harriet Tubman. The first black female judge in America, Ms. Jane Bolin, was a member of this church, along with other influential people. The church has experienced phenomenal new growth under the leadership of their Pastor, Reverend Edwrin Sutton. The Church as a ministry began in 1836. The church building was built between 1908 and 1910, with the parsonage added in 1914. The one-story, rectangular Gothic Revival church has an attached two-story bell tower topped by a pyramidal roof and a raised basement. The brick building features pointed arched openings and stained glass windows.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>Andrews United Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church at 95 Richmond Street in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn, New York, United States. It is now Andrews Ghana Wesley United Methodist Church. It was built in 1893 and is a one-story, asymmetrical orange brick church in the Queen Anne style. It features a massive rose window on the front facade and a three-story, square bell tower. The interior is arranged on the Akron Plan. Attached to the church is a two-story Sunday school wing. Also on the property is the original church parsonage It is a two-story frame dwelling built in 1878–1879 in the Italianate style.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Next Step Community Church is a historic non-denominational evangelical Christian church at 360 Schermerhorn Street in Brooklyn, New York. It was built in 1893–1894 in the Romanesque Revival style and rebuilt after a fire in 1917–1918. It has a brownstone base and superstructure faced with subtly textured brick with brownstone trim. The building features a large rose window and three corner towers.</p><br>
<p>It is a work of architects Weary & Kramer, and it is a work of Dodge & Morrison.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995 under the name Baptist Temple. The historic pipe organ was undergoing a multi-year restoration at the time. It was seriously damaged in a three-alarm fire that broke out on July 7, 2010.</p><br>
<p>In 2022, it became nondenominational and was renamed Next Step Community Church.</p><br>
<p>Bay Ridge United Methodist Church, originally known as Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, was a historic Methodist church at 7002 Fourth Avenue and Ovington Avenue in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York, New York.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by architect George W. Kramer.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1899 in the Romanesque Revival style. It was built of green serpentine stone and trimmed in brown stone. It featured a four-stage, crenelated clock tower. Also on the property was the contributing Sunday School building built in 1926–1927.</p><br>
<p>The church was demolished October 21, 2008.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>Christ Evangelical English Lutheran Church, also known as Rugged Cross Baptist Church, is a historic Evangelical Lutheran church at 1084 Lafayette Avenue, 11221, in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York, New York. It was built in 1898–1899 in the Romanesque Revival style. It is faced in cream colored brick with beige brick and terra cotta trim. The front facade is arranged with a two story tall central gable flanked by asymmetrical towers.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Church of the Holy Innocents is a historic Roman Catholic parish church in the Diocese of Brooklyn located at 279 E. 17th St. in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York, New York. The church was built in 1923 in the Late Gothic Revival style. It is built of granite with limestone trim. It consists of a tall, clerestoried nave with gable roof, lower flat-roofed side aisles, transepts, chancel, and a tall bell tower. Attached to the church is a rectory  and school .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<h2>Music</h2><br>
<p>The organ at Holy Innocents Church was built in 1922 by the Ernest M. Skinner Organ Company of Boston, Massachusetts as their Opus 390 3 manuals, 33 stops, 32 ranks. The instrument was rebuilt in 2005 by the Peragallo Pipe Organ Company of Paterson, NJ. As of April 6, 2018, the Director of Music is Dr. Alfred E. Cresci, himself a 1968 graduate of Holy Innocents School.</p><br>
<p>The organ is primarily used for the Saturday 5pm Mass in English, the Sunday 8am Mass in English, the 9:30am Mass in Spanish and the 11:30am Mass in English. The English Adult Choir which is heavily dependent on the organ for choral accompaniment, is one of the longest running in Brooklyn, beginning its existence in 1973.</p><br>
<h2>In popular culture</h2><br>
<p>The Holy Innocents Church appeared in several episodes of the AMC television show Mad Men as the church that character Peggy Olson and her family attended.</p><br>
<p>Cuyler Presbyterian Church, also known as Cuyler Chapel and Cuyler Presbyterian Church and Parsonage, is a historic Presbyterian church at 358–360 Pacific Street in Brooklyn, New York, New York. It was designed by architect Edward Sargent . It was built in 1892 and is a two-story rectangular plan building with a steeply pitched, slate covered gable roof and molded terra cotta copings. It was converted to a private residence in the early 1980s. The former parsonage was built c. 1851 and is a Greek Revival style dwelling.</p><br>
<p>The church served as the cornerstone for the Mohawk community in Boerum Hill (formerly known as North Gowanus). The Mohawk called their neighborhood "Little Caughnawaga," after their homeland in Canada. For nearly 50 years, most Mohawk in New York lived within 10 square blocks in Brooklyn; they were from Kahnawake, a reserve in Quebec, Canada. The men were ironworkers known as Mohawk skywalkers on the bridge and skyscraper projects of New York. The women, some of whom had gone to New York separately for economic opportunity, and others who were wives and mothers, worked in a variety of jobs, as well as creating community for their families.</p><br>
<p>The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>The Flatbush Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, also known as the Flatbush Reformed Church, is a historic Dutch Reformed church &ndash; now a member of the Reformed Church in America &ndash; at 890 Flatbush Avenue in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City. The church complex consists of the church, cemetery, parsonage and church house.</p><br>
<p>H.P. Lovecraft mentions the complex in passing in his story "The Horror at Red Hook", speaking of its "iron-railed yard of Netherlandish gravestones". The Church House and grounds are featured in season 2 of the Hulu TV series The Path, where they are used as the Meyerists&#39; New York City headquarters.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The land on which the complex sits has been in continuous use for religious purposes longer than any other in New York City.</p><br>
<p>The congregation was founded in 1654 and the original church was built under the direction of Jan Gerritse Strijker at the order of Peter Stuyvesant. The 2.5-story stone Federal style church building designed by Thomas Fardon was constructed in 1793-98 It features a stone tower with stone belfry. The stained glass windows are by Tiffany studios and commemorate the descendants of many early settlers of Flatbush. The building was constructed of Manhattan schist, and the architecture includes Romanesque features such as arched windows and doors, as well as Tuscan colonettes. The church&#39;s bell was imported from Holland, and paid for by John Vanderbilt.</p><br>
<p>The bodies of American soldiers who died in the Battle of Long Island during the American War are reportedly buried underneath the church structure.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery is the last resting place for most of the founding families of Flatbush. The earliest legible grave marker dates to 1754. The 1853 parsonage is a 2.5-story wood-frame house designed in a vernacular style transitional between the Greek Revival and Italianate styles.</p><br>
<p>The complex was initially designated a New York City Landmark in 1966, with the boundary expanded in 1979. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Flatlands Dutch Reformed Church, also known as Flatlands Reformed Church, is a historic Dutch Reformed church at Kings Highway and East 40th Street in the Flatlands neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. The complex consists of the church, administration building, and cemetery. The congregation was founded in 1654. The church was built in 1848 in the Greek Revival style. The Greek Revival administration building was constructed in 1904; it was enlarged in the 1920s. The cemetery contains about 1,500 burials dating to 1660.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Friends Meetinghouse and School is a Quaker meeting house and adjacent school building at the corner of Schermerhorn Street and Boerum Place in the Boerum Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City.</p><br>
<p>The meeting house, at 110 Schermerhorn Street, was built in 1857 and is a -story building built of red brick with brownstone details. Its design is attributed to Charles T. Bunting.</p><br>
<p>The school, located at 112 Schermerhorn Street, was built in 1902 and is a three-story red brick building located adjacent to the meeting house, at 112 Schermerhorn Street. It was designed by William Tubby, a prominent Brooklyn architect, to house the Brooklyn Friends School. Tubby was himself a Quaker and an early graduate of the school.</p><br>
<p>The meeting house remains in regular use as a house of worship by the Brooklyn Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. The Brooklyn Friends School moved to another site nearby in 1973., the school building houses Brooklyn Frontiers High School, an alternative school operated by the New York City Department of Education.</p><br>
<p>The meeting house was designated a New York City landmark in 1981, and the meeting house and school together were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Hanson Place Seventh-day Adventist Church, is an historic church at 88 Hanson Place between South Oxford Street and South Portland Avenue in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, which was built in 1857-60 as the Hanson Place Baptist Church. It was designed by George Penchard in the Early Romanesque Revival style. The building, which is constructed of brick on a brick foundation covered in stucco, features an entrance portico topped by a steeply pitched pediment supported by four Corinthian columns, while the side facade on South Portland features pilasters. The building&#39;s interior and exterior were restored in the 1970s. It has been a Seventh-day Adventist church since 1963.</p><br>
<p>The church was designated a New York City landmark in 1970, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The noted 1864 Baptist hymn, "Hanson Place," by Robert Lowry, was named after this church.</p><br>
<p>Immanuel Congregational Church, also known as St. Mark&#39;s Congregational Church and known since 1945 as Union Baptist Church, is a historic Congregational church at 461 Decatur Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York, New York. It was built in 1898 and is a two-story masonry building in the Neo-Renaissance style. The front facade is faced in yellow Roman brick. It measures approximately 90 feet wide and 100 feet deep.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>New Lots Reformed Church and Cemetery is a historic Dutch Reformed church and cemetery at 630 New Lots Avenue in East New York, Brooklyn, New York. It was built in 1823–1824 and is a small, rectangular wood-frame building sheathed in clapboard. It has a pitched gable roof and sits on a rough stone foundation. Adjacent to the church is the cemetery divided into two sections. The older section dates to the 17th century and includes burials of Revolutionary War soldiers and slaves. The present cemetery was established in 1841.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>New York Congregational Home for the Aged, also known as New York Congregational Center for Community Life, was a historic care facility associated with the Congregational church at 123 Linden Boulevard in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York, New York. It was a three-story brick institutional building in the Colonial Revival style. It was built in three stages; the center section and east pavilion in 1918, west pavilion in 1921, and west wing in 1927. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>In 2017, the main building was demolished and is now the site of PLG Luxury Apartments.</p><br>
<p>The Old First Reformed Church in Brooklyn, New York&ndash; officially known as The Reformed Dutch Church of the Town of Breukelen &ndash; is a historic Dutch Reformed church at 126 7th Avenue on the corner of Carroll Street in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, New York. The congregation was founded in 1654 by decree of Governor Pieter Stuyvesant, as one of three "collegiate churches." The current church building was constructed in 1888–1893 and is a Late Gothic Revival style Indiana limestone building on a granite base. It measures 100 feet wide and 162 feet deep. The front facade features a 212-foot-high stone tower and spire.</p><br>
<p>The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>Old Gravesend Cemetery is a historic cemetery at Gravesend Neck Road and McDonald Avenue in Gravesend, Brooklyn, New York, New York. The cemetery was founded about 1658 and contains the graves of a number of the original patentees and their families. Lady Deborah Moody, founder of Gravesend, is believed to be buried in the cemetery.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Our Lord is a historic Russian Orthodox cathedral at 228 North 12th Street in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City. The cathedral was designated a New York City landmark by the Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1969, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History and description</h2><br>
<p>The cathedral was built from 1916 to 1921 and was designed by Louis Allmendiger. The plan is based on a Greek cross and is designed in the Russian version of the Byzantine style, but with a Renaissance flavor. The building features characteristic copper Onion domes atop four octagonal belfries and a large central copper-covered dome. Each dome is topped by a large, gilded Russian Orthodox cross.</p><br>
<p>The building&#39;s facade is constructed from yellow bricks with a small amount of trim made from stone. The windows and doors are primarily round-arched, with stairs leading to the front entrance.</p><br>
<h2>In popular culture</h2><br>
<p>Exterior shots of the cathedral were used in the Seinfeld episode "The Conversion" where it represented a fictionalized version of a Latvian Orthodox church.</p><br>
<p>St. Georges Protestant Episcopal Church, also known as St. Georges Episcopal/Anglican Church, is a historic Episcopal church at 800 Marcy Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, in New York City. It was built in 1887 in the Gothic Revival style. It is constructed of red brick with light stone trim in a cruciform plan. Attached to the church is a small, one story Sunday school building. It was designed by architect Richard M. Upjohn .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The church continues to hold weekly worship services and Bible studies.</p><br>
<p>St. Mary&#39;s Episcopal Church is an historic Episcopal church at 230 Classon Avenue in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, New York City. It was built in 1858 of Belleville brownstone in the Gothic Revival style.</p><br>
<p>The building features a square tower with polygonal extension and a broach spire. The Johnson Memorial Parish House was built in 1892. Also on the property is the rectory; a -story brick house with a mansard roof and large oriel window. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Parishioners are largely Anglicans of West Indian descent. Community events include concerts, flea markets, brunches, classes, and lectures. In July 2011, the Sacristy of the Church was renovated.</p><br>
<p>Lisanti Chapel is a historic chapel at 740 E. 215th Street, Bronx, New York in the Williamsbridge neighborhood of The Bronx.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1905 by Francesco Lisanti, an Italian Immigrant, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>The chapel has pointed-arched window and door openings and various other subtle Gothic Revival details with a Southern Italian character; the date plaque is inscribed:</p><br>
<p>"F LISANTI</p><br>
<p>IN DEVOZIONE</p><br>
<p>DELL IMMACOLATA</p><br>
<p>PER SE E FAMIGLIA</p><br>
<p>ERESSE</p><br>
<p>1905"</p><br>
<p>George C. Boldt Yacht House is a historic yacht house located on the northeast shore of Wellesley Island near Alexandria Bay in Jefferson County, New York. It was commissioned by George Boldt to house the many watercraft he owned and is adjacent to Boldt Castle.</p><br>
<p>The yacht house was designed by the Philadelphia architects G. W. & W. D. Hewitt and built in 1903. It is a massive, eclectic, Shingle-style structure composed of five elements, which are:</p><br>
<p>a circular tower containing reception rooms,</p><br>
<p>a central group of three yacht bays,</p><br>
<p>a large east yacht bay,</p><br>
<p>a combination office and storage wing with a crenelated tower, and</p><br>
<p>a large caretaker&#39;s residence.</p><br>
<p>The yacht house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. On display in the yacht house is the steam yacht Kestrel, as well as various other vintage boats, a number of which are on loan from the Antique Boat Museum in Clayton, New York.</p><br>
<p>Grace Episcopal Church Complex is a historic Episcopal church complex at 155-15 Jamaica Avenue in Jamaica, Queens, New York City, in USA state of New York. The complex includes the church, parish house, and cemetery. The church was built between 1861 and 1862. It is constructed of rough-cut sandstone and features a steeply pitched roof and tall, sharp spire in the Gothic Revival style. A chancel, designed by Cady, Berg & See, was added at the rear of the church in 1901–1902. The parish house, known as Grace Memorial House, was built in 1912. It is three-story brick building in the Tudor Revival style. The surrounding cemetery includes burials dating to 1734, when the church located at this site. Notable interments include Rufus King , Charles King  and William Duer .</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>This church is the oldest Episcopal Church on Long Island, as well as the second-largest in New York State. Grace Episcopal Church was founded in 1702, long before the American Revolution. The parish&#39;s unofficial church life began in 1693. During that time, an English organization called the "Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts" sent a missionary minister to respond to the request made by a group of Jamaica residents. It was founded by the Rev. Patrick Gordon, who was appointed by the Bishop of London to serve as "rector of Queens County with residence in Jamaica". The reason for this response was to provide spiritual help and religious teachings. Gordon died in Jamaica before performing his ministry in 1702, but his duties were succeeded by the Rev. John Bartow. Furthermore, a group of Anglicans founded their own church in 1704. In 1733, around ½ acre of land was provided by many heirs to Thomas Colgan, where the members of the Church of England built their first church; it was christened the "Grace Church", of which its first rector and bishop were the Rev. Thomas Colgan and Rev. Samuel Seabury, respectively. The first church on the present site opened for worship in 1734.</p><br>
<h2>Figures buried</h2><br>
<p>Various people have been buried in the cemetery or burial grounds of Grace Episcopal Church. The tombstones of each person have been inscribed with a sacred and emotional message. One such person buried here was Edward Willet. Willett died at the age of 93 on December 8, 1794, and his tombstone contained the following verse: "Exact my soul in the joys that follow from Gods Almighty hand. While here my mouldring body lies to rest at God&#39;s Command."</p><br>
<p>The burial grounds of Grace Episcopal Church are also the resting place of Robert McCormick, a New Yorker and war correspondent. According to Felix T. Cuervo, president of the Native New Yorkers Historical Association, McCormick was a man who sought to "expand the frontiers of the Old West and was also a conservationist, who did much to protect our native wild life." As a war correspondent, McCormick provided detailed accounts and descriptions of his experiences during both the Crimean War and the American Civil War. Additionally, he was also a member of the new Republican Party and a friend of Abraham Lincoln.</p><br>
<h2>Activities, services and recreation</h2><br>
<p>Aside from holding weekly prayers and masses, Grace Episcopal Church has also hosted a number of special events for its community. October 1966 marked the 262nd anniversary of the founding of Grace Episcopal Church. To celebrate the occasion, the rector (the Rev. Philip F. Lewis) conducted and held anniversary services, assisted by the Rev. Joseph H. Titus, who retired the previous year. The church&#39;s anniversary also provided a display featuring the royal charter granted by King George of Great Britain, and ancient silver chalice (one of eight remaining in the United States), a painted coat of arms of the church provided by Queen Anne of Great Britain, and a set of six collection plates ("alms bassins").</p><br>
<p>Grace Episcopal Church has been known for volunteering its services toward gun control and removals. In August 1980, five churches, Grace Episcopal Church included, were named as places where those possessing illegal firearms turned in their weapons: this was done under the city&#39;s amnesty program. Mayor Koch and Dr. Robert Polk of the Council of Churches felt it best to use five houses of worship, where the weapons would be accepted with no issues or complications for the volunteers. Threats of arrest were dismissed as part of this service, as were questions and the provision of names. This amnesty program went into effect on July 10, 1980 and ended in August when a tougher gun law was enacted. Around 163 guns were surrendered.</p><br>
<p>In August 1995, the church welcomed the Black Heritage Foundation and Cultural Collaborative Jamaica, which, in association with the New York Foundation on the Arts, presented several jazz musicians to perform for fans and residents of Queens. The performers included the Bross Townsend Orchestra, composed of Bross Townsend (on the piano), John Dooley (on bass), Walter Perkins (on drums), Bubber Brooks (on tenor saxophone), Fred Smith (trumpet), and 80-year-old Al Casey, a "pioneer of the amplified guitar." This free jazz concert provided an in-depth, historical perspective on jazz and the contributions made by jazz pioneers.</p><br>
<h2>Symbolism and significance of the church</h2><br>
<p>Grace Episcopal Church is seen by many people as "a place of inspiration." Historians view this structure to be an ancient institution with an interesting and trouble past.</p><br>
<h2>Vandalism</h2><br>
<p>In 1957, the church was struck by vandalism, when a dozen tombstones within its burial grounds were smashed and another dozen toppled. Some of these tombstones were 100 years old. The tombstones belonging to Charles and Henrietta King, and those of the Cornell family, were among those smashed. Sergeant Paul Keane of the Jamaica Squad, ascertained that this was the result of "teenage hoodlums."</p><br>
<h2>Landmark status</h2><br>
<p>It was listed as a New York City Landmark in 1967 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. A campaign was launched in December 2010 by members of the Grace Episcopal Church; their intention was to meet with members of city council in order to overrule the Landmarks Preservation Commission&#39;s designation of the Church as a historical landmark when it voted the following year. According to the Rev. Darryl James, this designation "siphons off potential funding." The nearby Grace Episcopal Church Memorial Hall was listed separately as a New York City Landmark in 2010.</p><br>
<p>The Riker–Lent–Smith Homestead and Cemetery are a historic house and cemetery in the Steinway and East Elmhurst neighborhoods of Queens in New York City.</p><br>
<p>The earliest part of the house was built by Abraham Riker in 1656. He was an early settler of New Amsterdam, and a member of the Riker family, for whom Rikers Island nearby is named; the house was owned by the Riker and Lent families for much of its history. In 1729, the house was expanded and additions were built by then-owner Abraham Lent, a descendant of Abraham Riker. The small graveyard contains not only the graves of family members, but also that of Irish revolutionary and physician William James MacNeven who died in 1841 and who had stayed with the Riker family. Around 1800 the house was again expanded to its current size. It remains an intact house in the Dutch Colonial style. Current owner Marion Duckworth Smith and her late husband Michael Smith began restoration work in 1980, and the house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The house is the oldest known existing residential structure in Queens.</p><br>
<p>St. George&#39;s Church is an intercultural, multilingual Episcopal congregation in Flushing, Queens, New York City. With members from over twenty different nations of origin, it has served an ever-changing congregation since the 18th century. The current church building, constructed in 1854, is a New York City designated landmark on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>St. Georges was organized in 1702 as a mission of the Church of England by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. The group consisted of the Rev. George Keith, the Rev. John Talbot, and the Rev. Patrick Gordon, who was sent to be the missionary to Jamaica, Queens. Keith, a former Quaker, went into Flushings Quaker Meeting House in September 1702, announced his presence as a missionary, and engaged in both preaching and debate. This happened several times, and the subsequent early history of St. Georges is intertwined with the history of Grace Church in Jamaica, which was where the first Rector, the Rev. Patrick Gordon, resided. Gordon was succeeded in 1704 by the Rev. William Urquhart. Urquhart held services in Jamaica one week, and would then rotate the following weeks to Flushing and then Newtown (now Elmhurst). The community in Jamaica grew into Grace Church; the one in Flushing became St. Georges; and the one in Newtown became St. James.</p><br>
<p>Services were conducted in the old Guard House until 1746 when the first church building was constructed. A certain "John Aspinwall, Gentleman" donated £600 for a steeple and bell in 1760. Francis Lewis, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was a Warden at St. Georges Church, 1765–1790, and his son, Francis Lewis Jr., was a Warden from 1791-1794. The official union of the three parishes lasted for a century, and ended with the resignation of the Rev. Rattoone, when the vestry of St. Georges decided to unite with Newtown in hiring the Rev. Abraham L. Clarke in 1803. In 1809, the Rev. Clarke withdrew to Newtown, leaving Flushing without a rector and marking St. George&#39;s independence.</p><br>
<p>A second church was built in 1821 and the present church structure, the third on the site, was built in 1854. It was designed by Henry C. Dudley (1813–1894) and Frank Wills (1822–1857), architects who were associated with the New York Ecclesiological Society, in the Neo-Gothic style. The great tower bell was recast at Troy, New York, using the metal from the original bell, and still bore the inscription "The gift of John Aspinwall, Gentleman, 1760." The parish received a Royal Charter from King George III of Great Britain, dated June 17, 1761. After the American Revolution, the "Prayer for the King" in the church&#39;s prayer book was covered over with the "Prayer for the President."</p><br>
<p>As church attendance and membership began to decline and the population of Flushing changed with the influx of immigrants from Latin America and Asia, St. Georges began to reach out to the new immigrants. In 1988, the Rev. Dr. Franco Kwan was hired to provide outreach to the Asian community and to be the Vicar for the Chinese-speaking members of the congregation. Similarly, a part-time priest from another parish in the diocese was brought in to be the Vicar for the Spanish-speaking members of the congregation. Over the years, some critics have pointed out that the three bodies that make up St. Georges (i.e., English-, Chinese-, and Spanish-speaking congregations) share a building but do not interact enough. Because of his success in revitalizing the parish, the vestry of St. Georges attempted to hire the Rev. Dr. Franco Kwan as its permanent Rector in October 1996, and the New York Times even published an article about the new Rector. Fr. Kwans appointment, however, was rejected by the Rt. Rev. Orris G. Walker, Jr., Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island. Subsequently, three clergy from the diocese and twenty members of St. Georges congregation signed a canon law complaint against Bishop Walker, alleging that the Bishop violated the Constitution and Canons of the General Convention of the Episcopal Church. Bishop Walker denied the charges, and a Review Panel of Bishops appointed by the Episcopal Churchs Presiding Bishop ruled in favor of Bishop Walker. A motion to reconsider the decision was denied. The parish continues to hold trilingual services to mark special occasions, with readings done in English, Chinese, and Spanish, and copies of sermons distributed in those languages.</p><br>
<p>The church, the Old Parish House and the Graveyard along the side of the church were officially designated as City Landmarks by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 2000. St. George&#39;s celebrated its tercentenary in 2002.</p><br>
<p>The September 16, 2010 microburst across Brooklyn and Queens destroyed the church&#39;s 45-foot wooden steeple which crashed down on top of two New York City buses parked on Main Street. It is unknown whether the destruction was caused by the 100+ mph winds or a reported lightning strike. It was rebuilt in 2013.</p><br>
<p>The church houses a pipe organ that was built in 1922 by the Ernest Skinner Organ Company of Boston, Massachusetts. In 1952, the original Skinner instrument (Opus 355) was revised by Aeolian Skinner, successor to the Skinner company. The instrument consists of 37 ranks of pipes distributed across four manual keyboards and pedalboard. Phillip R. Lamb has served as Director of Music and Organist since 2015.</p><br>
<p>Saint Benedict Joseph Labre Parish is a historic Roman Catholic parish church complex in the Diocese of Brooklyn, located at 94-40 118th Street in Richmond Hill, Queens, New York City.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The complex consists of the church, rectory / parsonage, school, and cloister. The church was designed in 1916 by architect Thomas Henry Poole (1860–1919) and completed in 1919. It is a large brick Romanesque-style building in the basilican plan. It features a standing seam copper-roofed dome and a bell tower. The rectory is a -story brick building built in 1939. The cloister also dates to 1939 and connects the rectory to the sanctuary. It features a 1938 statue of the patron Saint Benedict Joseph Labre. The brick school building was built in 1912 and substantially enlarged in 1938–1939.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>St. Matthews Episcopal Church, also known as St. Matthews Episcopal Church and Close, is a historic Episcopal church at 85-45 96th Street in Woodhaven, Queens, New York. Located behind the church is the Wyckoff-Snediker Family Cemetery.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The parish hall dates to 1907. The church was built between 1926 and 1927 in the Late Gothic Revival style, designed by the architect Robert F. Schirmer. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>The original building(1901-1928) had an organ of an unknown brand. The congregation had moved from a storefront on 91st street and Jamaica avenue in 1901 to the small wooden church on 96th street. The first permanent building was the parish hall, which was completed in 1907. The second building was a permanent stone structure which was designed in the Gothic Revival style by Architect Henry Bereau and was completed in 1928. The cornerstone was laid the previous March; and the first service was held December 2, 1928, which is the genesis of the church. The first organ was by Henry Pilcher&#39;s Sons, Op. 1425 (1928), an Electro-Pneumatic with 11 ranks and two manuals. It was replaced in 1988 by the Reuter Organ Company of Lawrence, Kan., with Op. 2103, an Electro-Pneumatic with 10 ranks, 2 manuals and 35 stops.</p><br>
<h2>Cemetery</h2><br>
<p>In the 1960s, the church bought the Wyckoff-Snediker Family Cemetery which was behind the church buildings. It has about 160 gravestones from the 18th and 19th century. The church and cemetery were both placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<h2>All Saints</h2><br>
<p>St. Matthews closed on May 22, 2011. In October 2013, the congregation of All Saints Episcopal Church in Richmond Hill moved into the St. Matthews church building and began renovating it and the historic cemetery in back. It is now called All Saints Church.</p><br>
<p>Trinity Chapel, also known as St. Johns Church and Beth-El Temple Church of God in Christ, is a historic Episcopal church at 1874 Mott Avenue in Far Rockaway, Queens, New York. It was built in 1858 to the design of architect Richard Upjohn . It is a frame Gothic Revival style chapel on a brick foundation and three bays wide by five bays long. It has a steeply pitched roof and sided in wood shingles. Atop the roof is a wooden belfry with steeply pitched pyramidal roof. It was founded as Trinity Chapel as a mission of Trinity Church in Hewlett, New York. Its name was changed to St. Johns of Far Rockaway in 1881 when it became an independent parish. St. John&#39;s merged with Trinity Church in 1974 and the building was sold the following year to Beth-El Temple Church of God in Christ.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
