St. Monica's Church (Queens)

St. Monica's Church
4-story facade, in 2018
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Location94-20 160th Street,
Jamaica, New York
Coordinates40°42′7″N 73°47′53″W / 40.70194°N 73.79806°W / 40.70194; -73.79806
Built1856
ArchitectAnders Peterson, Rev. Anthony Farley
Architectural styleRomanesque
NRHP reference No.80002752
NYCL No.1017
Significant dates
Added to NRHPApril 9, 1980[1]
Designated NYCLMarch 13, 1979

St. Monica's Church is a historic former Roman Catholic parish church in the Diocese of Brooklyn, located in Jamaica, Queens, New York. It was built in 1856 and is a brick basilica-type building in the Romanesque style. It features a four-story entrance tower in the center of its three-bay-wide front façade.[2] Saint Monica's Church has been refurbished on the Campus of York College as a child care center.

St.Monica's Church
  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ Virginia Kurshan; Joan R. Olshansky & Elizabeth Spencer-Ralph (September 1979). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: St. Monica's Church". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved January 16, 2011. See also: "Accompanying six photos".