St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church (Sea Cliff, New York)

St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church at 253 Glen Street in Sea Cliff, Nassau County, New York.

St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church
St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church (Sea Cliff, New York) is located in New York
St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church (Sea Cliff, New York)
St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church (Sea Cliff, New York) is located in the United States
St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church (Sea Cliff, New York)
Location253 Glen St., Sea Cliff, New York
Coordinates40°50′49″N 73°38′44″W / 40.84694°N 73.64556°W / 40.84694; -73.64556
Arealess than one acre
Built1892–1894
ArchitectSibell, H. Gardner; Miller, Charles E.
Architectural styleLate Victorian
MPSSea Cliff Summer Resort TR
NRHP reference No.88000017[1]
Added to NRHPFebruary 18, 1988

The congregation was formed in 1889, with services taking place at the old Sea Cliff Hotel. Parishioner F. W. Geissenhainer donated land for a permanent church in 1892, with the cornerstone laid the same year.[2]

Completed in 1894, the church building is a 1+12-story, shingled and clapboard structure with a steeply pitched slate-covered gable roof.[3] It bears the distinctive characteristics of the Queen Anne style of architecture.[4]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.[1]

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ "About Us". SaintLukes-Seacliff.org. Retrieved 2011-02-16.
  3. ^ New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (March 1987). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: St. Lukes Protestant Episcopal Church". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2010-11-20. See also: "Accompanying seven photos".
  4. ^ "Sea Cliff Summer Resort Thematic Group", National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form, October 8, 1986
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