St. Peter's Church, Chapel and Cemetery Complex
National Register of Historic Places

St. Peter's Church, Chapel and Cemetery Complex

New York, Bronx County, New York
Listed
September 25, 1983
Type
Building
Period
Civil War
Ref No.
83001643

About this property

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. It was designated a New York City Landmark in 1976. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. Burials in the graveyard predated the church and include members of the Dutch settlement Oostdorp, or East Towne (called Westchester by the English settlers in New Netherlands). There is also a memorial gravestone commemorating two unidentified soldiers who likely died during the Battle of Throgs Neck in October 1776. 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.

Location

2500 Westchester Ave.
New York, Bronx County, New York
40.83806, -73.84432

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Sources

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St. Peter's Church, Chapel and Cemetery Complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 25, 1983.

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St. Peter's Church, Chapel and Cemetery Complex is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

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