After 161 years atop Maspeth Hill, St. Saviour's is gone. Hope to see you again sometime in the near future. AMNY has more photos.
Monday, May 12, 2008
St. Saviour's Church 1847-2008
After 161 years atop Maspeth Hill, St. Saviour's is gone. Hope to see you again sometime in the near future. AMNY has more photos.
5 comments:
I don’t remember that structure having multiple gothic arched "Lionel Train set" windows.
Was that buried underneath for years?
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-Joe
Yes it was revealed underneath the siding.
I'd like to see Bloomberg similarly removed from office, for his total disregard of Queens' rich history!
Stalin may have been a really bad guy, but blowing up all those churches in Russia was a good idea.
What happened to Newtown Historical Society, the group that led the struggle for the church?
Others are taking credit.
And it looks like the mainline preservationists from Manhattan are aiding and abetting the grinding yet another grassroots effort from Queens into dogfood. Looks like they knocked the legs out from out of yet another effort by the people of Queens to take back their neighborhood.
Not to worry. We have the Queensborough Preservation Legue and Queensmarks to fall back on!
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