Woodrow Methodist Church

1101 Woodrow Road | Rossville | built 1842

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

  1. 1787

    Staten Island's first Methodist church stands on this Woodrow Road site

    An earlier building on this site, dating to 1787, was the first Methodist church on Staten Island. Francis Asbury, one of the most important Methodist missionaries in America, had been given the Staten Island circuit as his first American assignment in 1771, and it included Woodrow along with the Bethel and Asbury congregations.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1835

    Rev. Henry Boehm comes to Staten Island and is later buried in Woodrow's churchyard

    The Reverend Henry Boehm, one of early American Methodism's pioneer preachers, was assigned to the Staten Island area in 1835 and spent 76 years in the ministry. He is buried in the Methodist graveyard around the church, which the landmarks commission tied to both him and Francis Asbury.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1842

    Woodrow's Methodists build a wooden Greek temple amid their graveyard

    The 1842 church is a small clapboard building fronted by four fluted Doric columns under a bare pediment, set on sloping ground among gravestones. Its only front features are two paneled double doors with eared moldings beneath the portico, reached by steps as wide as the church, with four tall windows down each side.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  4. 1876

    An open Italianate bell tower and spire are added above the Greek Revival portico

    In 1876 the 1842 church gained an open bell tower and spire of three stages, built in a vernacular Italianate manner above its Greek Revival portico. The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

    Source: Wikipedia

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