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Photograph of St. Luke's Episcopal Church
Photograph by Peter Greenberg, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Saint Luke's Episcopal Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1889.

From the record

“Luke's Episcopal Church is an historic Episcopal church in Forest Hills, Queens, a neighborhood of New York City. It was built in three phases that were completed in 1925, 1929, and 1940.”

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

One of 108 National Register listings published here for Queens County · listed in 2010 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 85 Greenway South, Forest Hills, 11375
  • When was it listed? November 2010
  • Category. building
  • Borough. Queens
  • Architectural style. Gothic Revival
  • National Register reference number. 10000900 - 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 Saint Luke's Episcopal Church, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet covering Saint Luke's Episcopal Church, surveyed 1889

Fires near this property

3,034 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3,034 fires within 5 miles of Saint Luke's Episcopal Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,400 acres in total. 178 started naturally. 146 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/undetermined2232
Natural178
Smoking155
Arson/incendiarism146
Misuse of fire by a minor100
Equipment and vehicle use86
Debris and open burning76
Recreation and ceremony44
Power generation/transmission/distribution13
Fireworks2
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 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
9 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresGateway National Recreation AreaFOUNTAIN1

Every fire recorded in Queens County

Storms near this property

5 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Forest Hills, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2004 and 2026: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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
July 2009Thunderstorm WindForest Hills1 hurt, $7,500A man was injured when a tree fell on his car near the intersection of 164th Street and Underhill Avenue.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindForest Hills-ASOS site KLGA at LaGuardia Airport measured a 62 mph wind gust.
September 2023Flash FloodForest Hills-FAA reports LGA Airport fuel farm flooded and unusable.
March 2010Heavy RainForest Hills-The Automated Surface Observing System at LaGuardia Airport recorded 3.16 inches of rainfall on March 13. This was the greatest 24-hour rainfall total for March 2010.
August 2004HailForest Hills-Golfball size hail was observed in Rego Park.

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
Church-in-the-Gardens, The0.2 miles2009
US Post Office-Forest Hills Station0.4 miles1988
Kent Manor0.6 miles2022
Ralph Bunche House0.8 miles1976
Richmond Hill Historic District1.0 miles2019
Maple Grove Cemetery1.2 miles2004

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 10000900 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.