St. Paul's Memorial Church (Staten Island)

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St. Paul's Memorial Church and Rectory
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St. Paul's Memorial Church, June 2010
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Location225 St. Paul's Avenue
New York, New York
Coordinates 40°37′56″N74°4′44.2″W / 40.63222°N 74.078944°W / 40.63222; -74.078944
Arealess than one acre
Built1866
ArchitectPotter, Edward, T.
Architectural styleHigh Victorian Gothic
NRHP reference No. 80002762 [1]
NYCL No.0891
Significant dates
Added to NRHPNovember 21, 1980
Designated NYCLJuly 22, 1975

St. Paul's Memorial Church is an Anglo-Catholic Episcopal parish in New York City, New York located at 225 St. Paul's Avenue in the Stapleton area of Staten Island.

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The historic church was built in 1866 of rough-faced, irregularly cut blocks of Staten Island trap rock with brownstone trim. It has buttressed side walls, a steeply pitched roof, and angled buttresses at the corners. The front side features a central rose window. An auxiliary chapel was added in 1889. The rectory is also built of trap rock with brownstone trim. [2]

It was added as "St. Paul's Memorial Church and Rectory" to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. [1]

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  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. "Cultural Resource Information System (CRIS)" (Searchable database). New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation . Retrieved 2016-05-01.Note: This includes Marjorie Pearson; John R. Olshansky & Elizabeth Spencer-Ralph (July 1979). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: St. Paul's Memorial Church" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-05-01. and Accompanying six photographs