St. Peter's Church, Chapel and Cemetery Complex

St. Peter's Episcopal Church
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40°50′17″N 73°50′41″W / 40.83806°N 73.84472°W / 40.83806; -73.84472
Location2500 Westchester Ave.
Westchester Square,
The Bronx, New York City
CountryUnited States
Language(s)American English
DenominationEpiscopal
History
StatusActive
Architecture
Architect(s)Leopold Eidlitz; Cyrus L.W. Eidlitz
StyleGothic Revival
Years built1853; 171 years ago (1853)
Administration
ProvinceInternational Atlantic Province (Province 2)
DioceseEpiscopal Diocese of New York
St. Peter's Church, Chapel and Cemetery Complex
Location2500 Westchester Ave.
Bronx, New York
Area6 acres (2.4 ha)
Built1853
ArchitectEidlitz, Leopold; Eidlitz, Cyrus L.W.
Architectural styleGothic, Gothic Revival
NRHP reference No.83001643[1]
NYCL No.0917
Significant dates
Added to NRHPSeptember 26, 1983
Designated NYCLMarch 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]

  • Side view
    Side view
  • Sign for St. Peter's
    Sign for St. Peter's
  • St. Peter's Church
    St. Peter's Church
  • St. Peter's Chapel
    St. Peter's Chapel

References

  1. ^ a b "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 2015-12-01. Note: This includes Larry E. Gobrecht (May 1983). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: St. Peter's Church, Chapel and Cemetery Complex" (PDF). Retrieved 2015-12-01. and Accompanying photographs
  3. ^ "Hunts Point Express – Legendary dance group gone from BankNote". brie.hunter.cuny.edu. Archived from the original on 2013-11-11.