St. Joan of Arc Rectory

82-00 35th Avenue | Jackson Heights | built 1926

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

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1926
St. Joan of Arc parish builds its rectory on the corner of 35th Avenue and 82nd Street
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The Brooklyn Diocese organized the St. Joan of Arc parish in 1920; until then Catholics in Jackson Heights went to Mass at the Community Casino or at St. Bartholomew's in Elmhurst. Through the 1920s the parish set out to build a church and the buildings around it, and in 1926 it raised this four-story rectory with a basement at 82-00 35th Avenue (NB 3926-1926), designed by Murphy & Lehman.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1926
Murphy & Lehman design the rectory in neo-Gothic brick with French chateau details
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Brooklyn architects Murphy & Lehman designed the brick rectory in a neo-Gothic manner with French-inspired, chateau-like trimmings. The doorway is an arched stone surround set in a keyed stone frame that rises to a point, and the house is capped by a hipped slate roof with cusp-gabled dormers and finials. The rectory stands where 82nd Street meets 35th Avenue, on the southeast corner, just north of the parish school.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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