Church of the Resurrection
- Style
- Queen Anne
- City
- Queens, NY
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The Church of the Resurrection is a historic Episcopal church and rectory in Richmond Hill, Queens, built in 1874 as a frame Gothic Revival church and extensively remodeled and enlarged in 1904 in the Late Gothic/Tudor Revival style.
the building
Riis memorial window. The church includes the Riis family memorial window, donated in 1905 by Elizabeth Riis, wife of Jacob Riis. The adjacent Cummings Hall was built in 1923, and the 1888 rectory is a 2 1/2-story frame dwelling in the Queen Anne style with a hipped roof and gable dormers.
the style
The church combines quarry-faced stone Late Gothic/Tudor Revival massing, with a prominent bell tower and spire, alongside a Queen Anne rectory next door.
More on Queen Annesignificance
The church is associated with Jacob Riis, the social reformer and photojournalist who lived in Richmond Hill from 1885 to 1912 and was a church member from 1900 to 1912; Theodore Roosevelt, then Governor of New York, visited in 1900 for the wedding of Riis's daughter Clara. The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.
nearby
- Public School 66
- St. Luke's Episcopal Church
- King Manor
- Ridgewood Savings Bank, Forest Hills Branch
- First Reformed Church
- Grace Episcopal Church Complex