{"id":63687,"date":"2017-09-21T17:00:40","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T21:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=63687"},"modified":"2017-09-21T17:21:22","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T21:21:22","slug":"old-st-james-episcopal-church-in-elmhurst-in-the-borough-of-queens-the-citys-2nd-oldest-gets-landmarked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=63687","title":{"rendered":"(DNA info) Old St. James Episcopal Church in Elmhurst in the borough of Queens, the City&#8217;s 2nd Oldest, Gets Landmarked"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Old St. James Episcopal Church in Elmhurst in the borough of Queens, the City&#8217;s 2nd Oldest, Gets Landmarked <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7TbEVlCWP3\">https:\/\/t.co\/7TbEVlCWP3<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/history?src=hash\">#history<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kendall Harmon (@KendallHarmon6) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KendallHarmon6\/status\/910976623029161984\">September 21, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Old St. James Episcopal Church on Broadway, one of the city&#8217;s oldest churches, is now officially a landmark.<\/p>\n<p>The Church of England mission church,\u00a0which was built in 1735 and 1736, was unanimously voted for the distinction by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/tags\/landmarks-preservation-commission\">Landmarks Preservation Commission<\/a>\u00a0on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the second-oldest religious building in the five boroughs, constructed in what was then Newtown Village for the new Anglican residents. (The oldest is the Old Quaker Meeting House in Flushing, also known as the Flushing Friends Meeting House, which was built in 1694,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/flushingfriends.org\/\">according to the church&#8217;s website<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/20170920\/elmhurst\/st-james-church-elmhurst-landmark-broadway\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old St. James Episcopal Church in Elmhurst in the borough of Queens, the City&#8217;s 2nd Oldest, Gets Landmarked https:\/\/t.co\/7TbEVlCWP3 #history \u2014 Kendall Harmon (@KendallHarmon6) September 21, 2017 The Old St. James Episcopal Church on Broadway, one of the city&#8217;s oldest<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=63687\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-tec-parishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63687"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63693,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63687\/revisions\/63693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}