Photograph of First Presbyterian Church of Far Rockaway — Photograph by Jim.henderson, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Russell Sage Sage Memorial Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

“The First Presbyterian Church of Far Rockaway, formerly known as the Russell Sage Memorial Church, is a historic Presbyterian church in the Far Rockaway neighborhood of Queens in New York City. It was commissioned by Olivia Slocum Sage as a memorial to her late husband, Russell Sage (1816-1906), as they used to summer in the area.”
Wikipedia article First Presbyterian Church of Far Rockaway, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 108 National Register listings published here for Queens County · listed in 1986 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Sage, Russell, Sage Memorial Church - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 1324 Beach Twelfth St., New York, 11691
When was it listed? September 1986
Category. building
Borough. Queens
National Register reference number. 86002678 - 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.

Fires near this property

630 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 630 fires within 5 miles of Russell Sage Sage Memorial Church between 1993 and 2020, burning about 386 acres in total. 36 started naturally. 38 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	436
Smoking	41
Arson/incendiarism	38
Misuse of fire by a minor	36
Natural	36
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Debris and open burning	15
Power generation/transmission/distribution	8
Recreation and ceremony	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

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
8 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.9 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.9 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2016	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
6 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA

Every fire recorded in Queens County

Maps showing this location

14 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.

1897 USGS Hempstead quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Hempstead quadrangle1:62500
1899 USGS Hempstead quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Hempstead quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
1947 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1966 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

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
US Post Office-Far Rockaway	0.5 miles	1988
Trinity Chapel	0.5 miles	2002
Far Rockaway Beach Bungalow Historic District	1.1 miles	2013
Richard Mott House	1.2 miles	2026
Trans World Airlines Flight Center	2.9 miles	2005
Temple of Israel Synagogue	3.5 miles	2014

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86002678 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Queens County	All 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.