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The congregation was organized in 1849. The first church was a small Gothic building on the northeast cor. of 38th Avenue & Vernon Ave. It was enlarged in May 1853. This original building burned down on Dec. 4, 1867. A new church was begun in 1868 and opened in 1869. St. Thomas was the fashionable church for the rich who lived in their mansions along the East River shore. As the area became commercialized after 1875, the church lost its congregation and was unable to support a resident minister. Services then became intermittent but the church did reopen on Feb. 24, 1889. The parish limped along until 1918 by which time the area had become completely industrialized. The second church burned down on June 15, 1922. The congregation reached a peak of 200 members in 1904 but had dwindled to 75 by 1918. The ministers have been:

1850-1851	E.R.T. Cooke	1874-1879	William J. Adamson
1851-1856	J.M.W. Waite	1880	Dr. J. 0. Drumm
1856-1864	Samuel W. Sayres	1880-1881	Horatio Southgate
1864-1867	John Cornell	1889-1903	W. H. Weeks
1867-1868	W.W. Batteshall	1903-1907	J. W. Gill
1869-1870	Charles H. Vandyne	1909-1912	H. E. Covell
1871-1873	Dr. S. B. Newby	1912-1918	A. G. Roberts
1873	Dr. Osgood

Text from '300 YEARS OF LONG ISLAND CITY 1630-1930' by VINCENT F. SEYFRIED

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