St. Mark's Episcopal Church

33-50 82nd Street | also 33-45 81st Street, 81-11 34th Avenue | Jackson Heights | built 1948

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.

1925
St. Mark's congregation sells inscribed bricks at a dollar apiece to fund a church
From 1923 the St. Mark's Episcopal congregation held its services in storefronts on 37th Avenue. To pay for a building of its own, it opened a fundraising drive in 1925 in which members could buy specially inscribed bricks for $1.00 each. The money helped build the church, which fills a landscaped site along 34th Avenue from 81st to 82nd Street, according to the Landmarks Preservation Commission, which drew on the Jackson Heights News.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1927
December 24
St. Mark's Episcopal Church opens with a Christmas Eve service
The cornerstone of St. Mark's was laid in June 1927, and the church held its first service on Christmas Eve that year. Robert Tappan, known mostly for groups of houses in Jackson Heights, designed it in a Modern Gothic style, with random ashlar stone walls, a steep cross-gabled slate roof and pointed-arch windows. A Parish House in a French Provincial style, with stucco walls and a hipped slate roof, was added to the north in 1948, facing 82nd Street.
“…in June, 1927, the cornerstone was laid and the church opened with a Christmas Eve service that year.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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