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Photograph of St. Matthew's Episcopal Church
Photograph by Jim.henderson, CC0 1.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

St. Matthew's Episcopal Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1889.

From the record

“Matthew's Episcopal Church, also known as St. Matthew's Episcopal Church and Close, is a historic Episcopal church at 85-45 96th Street in Woodhaven, Queens, New York.”

Wikipedia article St. Matthew's Episcopal Church (Queens), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 108 National Register listings published here for Queens County · listed in 2001 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 85-45 96th St., Woodhaven, 11421
  • When was it listed? May 2001
  • Category. building
  • Borough. Queens
  • National Register reference number. 01000550 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Then and now

1889 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet covering St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, surveyed 1889

Fires near this property

2,969 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2,969 fires within 5 miles of St. Matthew's Episcopal Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,406 acres in total. 170 started naturally. 144 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2193
Natural170
Smoking145
Arson/incendiarism144
Misuse of fire by a minor103
Equipment and vehicle use84
Debris and open burning74
Recreation and ceremony38
Power generation/transmission/distribution12
Fireworks4
Railroad operations and maintenance2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
9 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Queens County

Storms near this property

33 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodhaven, the town this property stands in, in 33 storm reports between 2006 and 2024: 19 thunderstorm wind, 10 flash flood, 2 hail, 2 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2024Thunderstorm WindWoodhaven$10,000Tree down on house with structural damage near 79th Street and Penelope Avenue.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindWoodhaven$6,000Numerous trees were reported down from Glendale to Maspeth.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindWoodhaven$6,000Numerous trees were reported down from Forest Park to Forest Hills.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindWoodhaven$5,000Trees reported down across Queens with tree service requested.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindWoodhaven$2,500Wires and large tree limbs were reported down at the intersection of Pitkin Avenue and Hawtree Street.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindWoodhaven$2,000Multiple power lines were downed across Middle Village that created numerous power outages.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindWoodhaven$1,250A tree fell on a road in Forest Hills.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindWoodhaven$1,000Tree down on the Jackie Robinson Parkway near Exit 4. Road is closed and Fire Department is on scene.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindWoodhaven$1,000Tree reported down on 95th Avenue.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindWoodhaven$1,000A two foot diameter tree was downed.
September 2021Flash FloodWoodhaven-A basement was flooded in Howard Beach, Queens.
August 2021Flash FloodWoodhaven-A car was stalled in high water on Woodhaven Boulevard in Rego Park, Queens.
July 2019Flash FloodWoodhaven-In Howard Beach, 95th Street was closed due to flooding between 159th Avenue and 160th Avenue.
July 2016Flash FloodWoodhaven-A car was stranded in high water due to flooding at 1622 Cross Bay Boulevard in Howard Beach.
June 2014Flash FloodWoodhaven-The intersection of 110th St. and 70th Rd. in Forest Hills was impassable and closed due to flooding.
April 2014FloodWoodhaven-Heavy rain coinciding with high tide on the Atlantic Ocean caused 79th St. in Howard Beach to become flooded and impassable. Two feet of water was estimated to be covering the road. A car was also submerged in flood waters on 78th St. between 155th and 156th Avenues. Tides were astronomically high due to a new moon on April 29. Storm total rainfall amounts reported across the county ranged from 4.96 inches at John F. Kennedy International Airport to 5.98 inches in Middle Village.
August 2012Flash FloodWoodhaven-In Richmond Hill, the intersection of 86th Ave. and 110th St. was impassable due to two ft. of standing water.
August 2012Flash FloodWoodhaven-The Grand Central Pkwy eastbound was closed at the Kew Gardens Interchange due to flooding.
August 2011FloodWoodhaven-The Belt Parkway in South Ozone Park was closed due to flooding. The Van Wyck Expressway at the Grand Central Pkwy. in Kew Gardens was also closed due to flooding.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindWoodhaven-Trees were downed near Crown Heights.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindWoodhaven-Large tree limbs were downed on power lines.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindWoodhaven-Multiple large trees and wires were downed with several roads blocked. Multiple trees were also downed on houses. The siding of a church was torn off.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindWoodhaven-Trees were downed on Metropolitan Avenue.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindWoodhaven-On 108th Street facing Queens Boulevard, a patio door blew in on the 15th floor terrace. There were 15 smashed windows in the building. Roof vents were torn off and metal patio railing was pulled off.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindWoodhaven-An 80 foot tree was downed on a house.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindWoodhaven-A roof was blown off of a building and into another building on Burns Street.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindWoodhaven-Extensive tree damage was reported at MacDonald Park.
July 2009HailWoodhaven-Penny size hail was reported in Howard Beach.
June 2008Flash FloodWoodhaven-Occupied vehicles were stuck in rising water at the intersection of Union Tpke. and Woodhaven Blvd.
June 2008Flash FloodWoodhaven-Occupied vehicles were stuck in rising water at the intersection of Cooper Ave. and 72nd St.
June 2008Flash FloodWoodhaven-Several feet of water flooded roadways and nearby basements of as many as 20 homes near the intersection of 85th St. and 77th Ave.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindWoodhaven-As a line of severe thunderstorms moved east across the area, it produced high winds that downed trees in Flatbush and Ozone Park.
August 2012HailWoodhaven-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Queens County

Maps showing this location

17 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Wyckoff-Snediker Family Cemeteryunder 500 feet2001
Public School 660.2 miles2003
Forest Park Carousel0.6 miles2004
Spear and Company Factory0.6 miles2017
Richmond Hill Historic District0.8 miles2019
Ralph Bunche House1.0 miles1976

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 01000550 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Queens CountyAll 108 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.