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Photograph of St. Bartholomew's Protestant Episcopal Church and Rectory
Photograph by Jim.henderson, CC0 1.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

St. Bartholomew's Protestant Episcopal Church and Rectory

Built in 1886 (Romanesque Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1889.

From the record

“Bartholomew's Protestant Episcopal Church and Rectory is a historic Episcopal church and rectory located at 1227 Pacific St., east of Bedford Avenue in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York, New York. It was built in 1886 in the Romanesque Revival style.”

Wikipedia article St. Bartholomew's Protestant Episcopal Church and Rectory, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 207 National Register listings published here for Kings County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · built in 1886, Romanesque Revival architecture, by George Poole Chappell.

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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 1227 Pacific St., New York, 11216
  • When was it listed? April 1980
  • Category. building
  • Borough. Brooklyn
  • When was it built? 1886
  • Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
  • Architect. George Poole Chappell
  • National Register reference number. 80002639 - 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 1995

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 106 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. Bartholomew's Protestant Episcopal Church and Rectory, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet covering St. Bartholomew's Protestant Episcopal Church and Rectory, surveyed 1889

Fires near this property

2,012 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2,012 fires within 5 miles of St. Bartholomew's Protestant Episcopal Church and Rectory between 1993 and 2020, burning about 570 acres in total. 117 started naturally. 172 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/undetermined1378
Arson/incendiarism172
Natural117
Smoking103
Debris and open burning73
Equipment and vehicle use65
Misuse of fire by a minor54
Fireworks23
Recreation and ceremony14
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Power generation/transmission/distribution5

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 2010Missing 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 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2014Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Kings County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of St. Bartholomew's Protestant Episcopal Church and Rectory: 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
D Smith Steel/ Brooklyn, N.Y.IronUnknown
N L Industries/ Brooklyn. N.Y.LeadUnknown
Roosevelt Metal/ Brooklyn, N.Y.LeadUnknown

Every working recorded in Kings 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.

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
Twentythird Regiment Armory0.1 miles1980
Nassau Brewing Company0.2 miles2014
Kismet Temple0.3 miles2013
Renaissance Apartments0.3 miles1995
Kol Israel Synagogue0.4 miles2009
Clinton Hill South Historic District0.4 miles1986

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 80002639 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kings CountyAll 207 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.