Old Saint James Episcopal Church (Old Saint James Parish Hall)
- Year
- 1735
- Style
- American Colonial
- City
- Queens, NY
St. James Church at 86-02 Broadway in Elmhurst, Queens, is the city's oldest surviving Anglican building, built in 1735-36 as the Mission Church at Newtown, founded in 1704 as a mission of a Jamaica, Queens parish. The congregation used it until a new church was built nearby in 1848, after which it became a parish building, expanded several times including a major 1883 expansion.
the style
Its American Colonial construction of 1735 makes it a rare surviving pre-Revolutionary specimen in New York City.
significance
Designated a New York City Individual Landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
nearby
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