St. Peter's Church, Chapel and Cemetery Complex

St. Peter's Episcopal Church
40°50′17″N73°50′41″W / 40.83806°N 73.84472°W / 40.83806; -73.84472
Location	2500 Westchester Ave. Westchester Square, The Bronx, New York City
Country	United States
Language	American English
Denomination	Episcopal
History
Status	Active
Architecture
Architect(s)	Leopold Eidlitz; Cyrus L.W. Eidlitz
Style	Gothic Revival
Years built	1853;172 years ago (1853)
Administration
Province	International Atlantic Province (Province 2)
Diocese	Episcopal Diocese of New York
St. Peter's Church, Chapel and Cemetery Complex
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
New York City Landmark  No. 0917
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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  Side view
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  Sign for St. Peter's
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  St. Peter's Church
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  St. Peter's Chapel

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
2. Larry E. Gobrecht (May 1983). National Register of Historic Places Registration: New York SP St. Peter's Church, Chapel and Cemetery Complex. National Archives and Records Administration. Retrieved October 24, 2025. (Downloading may be slow.)
3. "Hunts Point Express – Legendary dance group gone from BankNote". brie.hunter.cuny.edu. Archived from the original on 2013-11-11.

External links

• St. Peter's Church, Chapel and Cemetery Complex at Find a Grave