All Saints Church (former St. Matthew's Episcopal Church)

85-43 96th Street | Woodhaven | built 1931

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

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1928
December 2
St. Matthew's holds its first service in a new Gothic Revival stone church
After laying the cornerstone that March, the parish opened its permanent stone church in the Gothic Revival style and held the first service on December 2, 1928. It came with an electro-pneumatic organ by Henry Pilcher's Sons, Opus 1425, with 11 ranks and two manuals; the Reuter Organ Company of Lawrence, Kansas, replaced it in 1988.
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2001
St. Matthew's church and its old family graveyard join the National Register
Behind the church lies the Wyckoff-Snediker Family Cemetery, about 160 gravestones from the 1700s and 1800s, which the parish bought in the 1960s. In 2001 the church and the burial ground were both listed on the National Register of Historic Places; together they are also known as St. Matthew's Episcopal Church and Close.
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2013
October
All Saints Episcopal moves from Richmond Hill into the closed St. Matthew's church
The St. Matthew's parish shut its doors on May 22, 2011. In October 2013, Richmond Hill's All Saints Episcopal congregation moved into the empty church building and began renovating both the church and the old cemetery behind it. The church now goes by the name All Saints.
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