St Mary's RC Church
by Steven Spak
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St Mary's RC Church
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Steven Spak
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St Mary's RC Church located at 1008 49th Ave, Long Island City, NY. St. Mary’s Church was incorporated in 1865 to serve the growing Irish Catholic population in Hunter’s Point. About 50 parishioners participated in the first Mass celebrated in a local schoolhouse in 1868 by the parish’s first pastor Father John Crimmins. A small 45-foot by 90-foot wooden church was erected at the site of the present-day church in 1869. Father McGuire commissioned a new stone church that was dedicated in 1891. In July, 1893, a fire broke out in the Vernon Avenue corridor, destroying the church, the newly built school, the rectory as well as 30 other houses and buildings. After the fire, the East Avenue Baptist Church offered to share its facilities until St. Mary’s could be rebuilt.
The new church, this time made out of brick in the Gothic style, was created by Patrick Charles Keely, a prolific Catholic architect. By Christmas Eve parishioners were able to celebrate a Mass in the basement level. The completed church was dedicated by Bishop Charles McDonnell in October, 1894.
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