St. Peter's Episcopal Church | |
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40°50′17″N73°50′41″W / 40.83806°N 73.84472°W | |
Location | 2500 Westchester Ave. Westchester Square, The Bronx, New York City |
Country | United States |
Language(s) | American English |
Denomination | Episcopal |
History | |
Status | Active |
Architecture | |
Architect(s) | Leopold Eidlitz; Cyrus L.W. Eidlitz |
Style | Gothic Revival |
Years built | 1853 |
Administration | |
Province | International Atlantic Province (Province 2) |
Diocese | Episcopal Diocese of New York |
St. Peter's Church, Chapel and Cemetery Complex | |
Location | 2500 Westchester Ave. Bronx, New York |
Area | 6 acres (2.4 ha) |
Built | 1853 |
Architect | Eidlitz, Leopold; Eidlitz, Cyrus L.W. |
Architectural style | Gothic, Gothic Revival |
NRHP reference No. | 83001643 [1] |
NYCL No. | 0917 |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | September 26, 1983 |
Designated NYCL | March 23, 1976 |
St. Peter's Church, Chapel and Cemetery Complex is a historic Episcopal Gothic Revival church at 2500 Westchester Avenue and Saint Peters Avenue in Westchester Square, Bronx, New York City.
It was built in 1853 to designs by the architect Leopold Eidlitz in the Village of Westchester, now the East Bronx. The church was damaged heavily by fire and reconstructed and changed by Cyrus L. W. Eidlitz in 1878. It is a Gothic Revival style, cruciform plan, church constructed of rock faced schist. It features a square corner tower with buttressed corners and an octagonal belfry. [2] : 3
It was designated a New York City Landmark in 1976. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [1]
Burials in the graveyard predated the church and include members of the Dutch settlement Oostdorp, or East Towne, and called Westchester by the English settlers in New Netherlands.
In 2013, the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance relocated from the American Bank Note Company Building to the chapel on the grounds of St. Peter's Church. [3]
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