{"nrhp_refnum":"09001086","name":"Church-in-the-Gardens, The","other_names":["Community Congregational Christian Church"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"50 Ascan Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Forest Hills","county":"Queens","state":"NY","lat":40.71845101900004,"lon":-73.84089950999999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2009-12-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Congregational church campus at 50 Ascan Avenue in Forest Hills Gardens, Queens, New York, consisting of a 1915 church, a 1926 Community House, a 1929 parsonage and a 1953 Parish Hall. The church was designed by Grosvenor Atterbury.","why_significant":"The campus is tied to the planned suburb of Forest Hills Gardens, developed by the Russell Sage Foundation under architect Grosvenor Atterbury. The church was funded by Olivia Sage, and the Community House and parsonage follow Atterbury's Arts and Crafts-inspired design for the neighborhood. The excerpt does not state the criteria or the full argument, so this reading is partial.","narrative":"Church-in-the-Gardens is a Congregational church campus at 50 Ascan Avenue in Forest Hills Gardens, Queens. It includes a fieldstone church opened in 1915, a Community House built in 1926, a stucco parsonage from 1929 and a Parish Hall completed in 1953. The buildings are described as Tudor Revival, with a Norman-style roof design and red clay tile roofs. Grosvenor Atterbury, supervising architect of the planned suburb, designed the church, and Olivia Sage donated the money to build it on land bought with funds raised by neighborhood residents. He also drew up plans for the Community House with Stowe Phelps and John Almy Tompkins. That building holds a gymnasium and theater hall, a banquet hall and a tile-lined pool. Its half-timbering, rough stucco and tiled cross-gabled roof echo the Arts and Crafts character of the neighborhood. The campus remains an active place of worship and community use.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Grosvenor Atterbury (church, Community House with Stowe Phelps and John Almy Tompkins); Wagner (Parish House)","architectural_style":"Tudor Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Church, Community House and Parish Hall remain in use for religion, recreation and community activities; the former parsonage is a rental property.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:47.767952-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/09001086.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09001086/48daf197b7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09001086/48daf197b7-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Jim.henderson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Church_in_the_Gardens_UCC_50_Ascan_Av_jeh.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim.henderson</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Church_in_the_Gardens_UCC_50_Ascan_Av_jeh.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75321068","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Church-in-the-Gardens","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22329567"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/queens/church-in-the-gardens-the-09001086/"}