Immanuel Union Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.

From the record

One of 63 National Register listings published here for Richmond County · listed in 2018 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 693 Jewett Ave, Staten Island, 10314
When was it listed? July 2018
Category. building
Borough. Staten Island
Architectural style. High Victorian Gothic
National Register reference number. 100002742 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1898 to 1986

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Immanuel Union Church, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet covering Immanuel Union Church, surveyed 1898

Fires near this property

2,105 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2,105 fires within 5 miles of Immanuel Union Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,889 acres in total. 213 started naturally. 133 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/undetermined	1511
Natural	213
Arson/incendiarism	133
Smoking	85
Equipment and vehicle use	55
Debris and open burning	43
Fireworks	26
Recreation and ceremony	17
Misuse of fire by a minor	14
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Other causes	3

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 September 2010	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA

Every fire recorded in Richmond County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Immanuel Union Church: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Cooper & Hewitt Mine	Iron	Past Producer
New Dorp Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Tyson Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Tyson's Mine & 2 Additional Mines	Iron	Past Producer	Residual

Every working recorded in Richmond County

Maps showing this location

16 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.

1898 USGS Staten Island quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Passaic quadrangle1:125000
1900 USGS Staten Island quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
1905 USGS Passaic quadrangle1:125000 - 4 printings
1942 USGS Passaic quadrangle1:125000
1944 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000 - 5 printings
1947 USGS Arthur Kill quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1955 USGS Arthur Kill quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1964 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1966 USGS Arthur Kill quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1984 USGS Newark quadrangle1:100000
1986 USGS Newark quadrangle1:100000

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Peter Houseman House	0.4 miles	1982
Scott-Edwards House	0.7 miles	1983
Temple Emanu-El	0.8 miles	2007
Gardiner-Tyler House	1.0 miles	1984
West Brighton Plaza	1.2 miles	2024
Reformed Church on Staten Island	1.4 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100002742 in Record Group 79.
Richmond County	All 63 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.