St. Peter's Church, Chapel and Cemetery Complex is a historic Episcopal Gothic Revival church at 2500 Westchester Avenue and Saint Peters Avenue in the Bronx

The Bronx

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, New York City

New York City

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It was built in 1853 to designs by the architect Leopold Eidlitz

Leopold Eidlitz

Leopold Eidlitz was a prominent New York architect best known for his work on the New York State Capitol , as well as "Iranistan" , P. T. Barnum's house in Bridgeport, Connecticut; St. Peter's Church, on Westchester Avenue at St...

 in the Village of Westchester, now the East Bronx

East Bronx

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. The church was damaged heavily by fire and reconstructed and changed by Cyrus L. W. Eidlitz

Cyrus L. W. Eidlitz

Cyrus Lazelle Warner Eidlitz was a New York architect best known for designing One Times Square, the former New York Times Building on Times Square.-Early life and education:Cyrus Lazelle Warner Eidlitz was born in New York...

 in 1878.

It was designated a New York City Landmark in 1976. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.