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Grace Episcopal Church Memorial Hall
Note: Landmark status was overturned by the city council.
Grace Episcopal Church Memorial Hall is part of one of the most historic church complexes in New York City. Grace Episcopal Church was founded in 1702 and the present English Gothic Revival style church building, designed by Dudley Field, was built in 1861-62 and enlarged in 1901-02 by Cady, Berg & See. Surrounding the church is a graveyard in which are buried members of many families important to the history of the city, including Rufus King. .
Northeast of the church building, behind the graveyard, is the Memorial Hall, constructed in 1912 to meet the needs of the growing congregation for a meeting place and social center. The Memorial Hall included a gymnasium, an auditorium, meeting rooms and offices. These facilities were needed as the role of the church expanded from solely providing religious services to include educational and social services. On the 250th anniversary of the founding of the church, the Memorial Hall was being used by 21 different organizations. Designed by the prominent architectural firm of Upjohn and Conable in Tudor Gothic Revival style to complement the church building, the brick building’s symmetrical massing and flanking wings add a picturesque element to the church complex
Development of Jamaica
Jamaica, one of the oldest settlements within the boundaries of New York City, developed into the leading commercial and entertainment center of Queens County. The southern part of the area was inhabited by a Native American tribe called Jameco when the first Europeans arrived there in 1655. In 1656, Robert Jackson applied to Governor Stuyvesant for a patent and “purchased” ten acres of land from the native tribe and called the settlement Rusdorp.
Following the transfer of power from the Dutch to the English in 1664, Rusdorp was renamed Jamaica, after the original Indian inhabitants of the region. Queens County was chartered in 1683. The English established Jamaica as the governmental center of Queens County, with a court, county clerk’s office, and parish church . Outside the town center, Jamaica was largely an area of farm fields and grazing land for cattle.
A 1698 Census of Queens County showed a total population of 3,355 whites and 199 blacks. Although early records indicate the existence of slaves in Jamaica, throughout its history Jamaica also had a free black population. One of its most well-known African-American residents was Wilson Rantus who was born in Jamaica in 1807. Well-educated, he started a school for black children and became involved in the effort, along with African-Americans Samuel V. Berry of Jamaica and Henry Amberman of Flushing to achieve the right to vote for African-Americans.
New York State incorporated Jamaica as a village in 1814. Jamaica’s central location in Queens County and the extensive transportation network that developed in the town during the 19th century resulted in the transformation of the community into the major commercial center for Queens County and much of eastern Long Island. It was the arrival of the railroads that began this transformation. The roads and rail lines connecting Jamaica with other sections of Queens County, with Brooklyn to the west, eastern Long Island, and ferries to New York City had a tremendous impact. Jamaica’s farmland was soon being subdivided into streets and building lots, and new homes were erected.
By the turn of the century, Jamaica’s importance as a commercial area became evident in the impressive buildings beginning to appear on Jamaica Avenue, most notably the Beaux-Arts style Jamaica Savings Bank, 161-02 Jamaica Avenue . After Jamaica was incorporated into the borough of Queens and became a part of New York City on January 1, 1898, additional transportation improvements brought increasing numbers of people. As a result, the population of Jamaica quadrupled between 1900 and 1920. Grace Episcopal Church built its Memorial Hall during this time.
It was during the 1920s, when the major mass transit links were in place, and during a period when private automobile ownership was growing at an extraordinary rate, that Jamaica experienced its major expansion as a commercial and entertainment center. By 1925, Jamaica Avenue between 160th Street and 168th Street had the highest assessed valuation in Queens County.
During the 1920s and early 1930s, many small-scale commercial buildings were erected in Jamaica, as well as several major office and commercial structures, including the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce Building, 89-31 161st Street ; the Suffolk Title Guarantee Company Building, 90-04 161st Street ; and the J. Kurtz & Sons Store, 162-25 Jamaica Avenue . In addition, Jamaica developed into a significant entertainment center. By the mid-1930s, there were at least eight movie theaters on or just off of Jamaica Avenue, and there were over 60 restaura
Clergy House
This handsome Gothic style building Is one of the finest In the City. It Is an Integral part of a picturesque group of buildings, all designed In similar style, that form part of the Grace Church complex, and It Is a part of the terminal vista obtained by looking west on 11th Street toward Fourth Avenue.
In New York, few structures remain which provide such terminal features: Grand Central Station at the head of Park Avenue, the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Fifth Avenue at the end of East 32nd Street, and the Hew York Public Library at the end of East 4lst Street are among the notable examples which come to mind.
The Grace Church complex Is located on a portion of the old Brevoort Farm. The Brevoorts were an old Knickerbocker family, established In the City since 1673. The farm was bounded roughly by the area between 9th and 13th Streets and Fourth to Sixth Avenues.
The existence today of a long block, running from 10th to 12th Streets, between Broadway and Fourth Avenue, is due entirely to the stubbornness of Henry Brevoort. When the City attempted to cut through 11th Street, In accordance with the Commissioners’ Plan of 1807, he refused to vacate or remove his old farmhouse, which stood on the west side of Fourth Avenue In the line of 11th Street. Successive ordinances were passed–to no avail—and so the effort to cut through the property was finally abandoned. In the last analysis, we owe the closed vista where 11th Street meets Fourth Avenue to Henry Brevoort.
Grace Church and Its Rectory on Broadway were designed In Gothic Revival style by architect James Renwtck, Jr. Once New York’s.most fashionable church, It served a large congregation of we!!-to*do parishioners upon completion In 1846. By the 1870s and early eighties, however, the social and cultural needs of the parish and of the neighborhood had changed, and Dr. Henry C. Potter, who served as rector from 1868 to 1884, recognized the need for providing new facilities.
No. 92 Fourth Avenue, Clergy House, Is one of three buildings which were erected In 1902 . They form a symmetrical group flanking the apse of Grace Church. The architects were the firm of Heins & LaFarge, winner of the original competition for The Cathedra! of Saint John the Divine.
Despite the later date of these buildings, they accord perfectly with the earlier 1883 Gothic Revival Grace Memorial House, No. 94-96, adjoining them to the north. No. 92, Clergy House, actually duplicated the design of No. 06, making the middle section at No. 94, surmounted by a high gable, the center of a symmetrical group of buildings.
Clergy House, built as a residence for clergy, was closed In 1973 In anticipation of the enlargement of the facilities of the Church School. It Is a tribute to Grace Church that Grace Memorial House and ..Clergy House,,although constructed at different dates and designed by different architects, give the appearance of one building. No. 98, Just north of No 94-96 was built in character with it in 1907.
These buildings bear testimony to the intelligent control exercised by Grace Church over architectural design for almost sixty years, thus achieving a remarkably coherent group of buildings lends great distinction to the area.
Architecturally, Nos. 92 and 94-96 form a homogenous whole of which No. 92 is an integral part.
The ecclesiastical character of Grace Church and Its Rectory Is carried out In the marble-faced Clergy Mouse In Its use of pointed-arch windows and In the dormer and hay windows where tracery Is employed. The label moldings over the windows, the trefoil railing above the hay window and the finials on the south gable of the roof are In themselves a study In Gothic detail.
The moldings used as horizontal bandcourses serve to unite the overall composition of this building with Nos. 94-96 and 98 with which It forms such an Important part visually.
In recognition of their significance, the Grace Church Houses were placed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 23, 1974.
– From the 1977 NYCLPC Landmark Designation Report
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