{"nrhp_refnum":"83001643","name":"St. Peter's Church, Chapel and Cemetery Complex","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2500 Westchester Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"The Bronx","state":"NY","lat":40.83806152400007,"lon":-73.84432229499998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-09-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"St. Peter's Church, Chapel and Cemetery Complex is a Gothic Revival Episcopal parish complex at 2500 Westchester Avenue in the Bronx, New York. The church was built in 1853 and reconstructed in 1879 after a fire, and it sits on a roughly 6-acre site with a colonial-era graveyard.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the complex is architecturally significant as a distinctive Gothic Revival parish church, designed by Leopold Eidlitz and rebuilt by his son Cyrus Eidlitz after an 1877 fire. Its plan and siting reflect Ecclesiological principles, and its decoration shows Victorian Gothic influence. It is also historically important as one of the oldest parishes in New York City and one of the first five Anglican churches formed in the Province of New York.","narrative":"St. Peter's Church in the Bronx is a Gothic Revival parish complex made up of a stone church, a small mortuary chapel called Foster Hall, and a country graveyard with markers dating from 1702. Leopold Eidlitz designed the original church in 1853. After fire gutted it in 1877, his son Cyrus Eidlitz rebuilt it in 1879, largely following the original design. The church is built of rock-faced pink and beige schist, with a buttressed tower, a tall spire, a polychromed slate roof and pointed-arch openings. Cyrus Eidlitz raised the transepts, added a clerestory and redecorated the interior. The parish dates to the 1680s and was formally established in 1693, making it one of the oldest in New York City. Its history includes Queen Anne's gift of communion silver in 1706 and Samuel Seabury, who later became the first Episcopal bishop in the United States, as rector. The nomination values both the architecture and this long history.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Leopold Eidlitz (original, 1853); Cyrus Lazelle Warner Eidlitz (reconstruction, 1879)","architectural_style":"Gothic Revival / Victorian Gothic","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Occupied and in religious use; Foster Hall is used as a Sunday School. A 1953 rear addition housing the rectory and offices is noted as non-contributing.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:42.047082-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/83001643.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001643/c70eb0700c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001643/c70eb0700c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Thelegendarymastermind","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Buildingside.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Thelegendarymastermind</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Buildingside.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75316523","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Peter%27s_Church,_Chapel_and_Cemetery_Complex","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7591323"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/the-bronx/st-peters-church-chapel-and-cemetery-complex-83001643/"}