NRHP Reference # 06001297 Phone +1 718-849-4048 Added to NRHP 25 January 2007 | Area 4,500 m² Year built 1916 | |
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Location 94-40 118th St., Richmond Hill, New York Architect Thomas Henry Poole et al. Architectural style Romanesque, Classical Revival Address 94-40 118th St, South Richmond Hill, NY 11419, USA Similar Our Lady Queen of Martyrs C, Holy Child Jesus Church, St Mary Gate of Heaven, Our Lady of Mercy RC Church, St Josephs Catholic Church | ||
Saint Benedict Joseph Labre Parish is a historic Roman Catholic parish church complex in the Diocese of Brooklyn, located at 94-40 118th Street in Richmond Hill neighborhood of Queens, New York.
Description
The complex consists of the church, rectory / parsonage, school, and cloister. The church was designed in 1916 by noted architect Thomas Henry Poole (1860–1919) and completed in 1919. It is a large brick Romanesque-style building in the basilican plan. It features a standing seam copper-roofed dome and a bell tower. The rectory is a 2 1⁄2-story brick building built in 1939. The cloister also dates to 1939 and connects the rectory to the sanctuary. It features a 1938 statue of the patron Saint Benedict Joseph Labre. The brick school building was built in 1912 and substantially enlarged in 1938–1939.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.