Brighton Heights Reformed Church

320 St Marks Place | also 320 Montgomery Avenue | St. George | built 1997

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.

1863
October 27
The Tompkinsville Reformed congregation lays the cornerstone of the wooden church that stood here before today's
The Reformed Protestant Dutch congregation, begun with help from Vice President Daniel D. Tompkins and incorporated in 1823, had outgrown its first church in Tompkinsville and bought this Brighton Heights lot. Manhattan architect John Correja drew a Gothic Revival church in stone, but the cost ran too high, so he adapted the plan as a cheaper wooden building. Its cornerstone went down on October 27, 1863, and the church was dedicated on November 3, 1864; its prominent spire could be seen along the island's northeast shore.
Source: preserve.org
1996
June 28
A worker's heat gun sets the landmark church on fire, and the ruins are torn down the next day
The wooden church, named a New York City landmark in 1967, caught fire on June 28, 1996, when a worker was stripping paint with a heat gun. The damaged building was demolished on June 29. The lost building had stood at 320 St. Mark's Place, at the corner of Fort Place.
Source: preserve.org

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