West Farms Presbyterian Church and graveyard, 1938. The church was built in 1815. The condition of the structure in this image is much deteriorated from the earlier 1911 photograph. In 1905, a new church building was constructed on the south side of 180th Street, and this structure was likely put out of regular use. The new church is a Gothic Revival structure. It was funded by Charles Bathgate Beck, a trustee of the church and a member of one of its oldest families, in honor of his mother. In 1910 as a nod to this action the church was renamed Beck Memorial. This old church building survived into the late 1930s but was likely demolished by the mid century.

West Farms Presbyterian Church, ca. 1885. In 1814 the First Presbyterian Church in the Village of West Farms was organized. In 1815 a small wood-frame church was erected. The adjacent cemetery was founded by John Butler for a private burial just after the establishment of the church. The Butler family owned the burial ground until the City took possession in 1954.

This is a collection of the smaller burial places that dot the landscape of the five boroughs. They are family burial plots and church graveyards, some full of 300-year-old grave markers and some with no monuments at all, some squished between storefronts and major thoroughfares and others hidden behind homes and walls. While most remain extant (if not always accessible), some have been lost to time and development.

West Farms Presbyterian Church and graveyard, 1911. The graveyard here contains the burials of soldiers who fought in four American wars: the War of 1812, the Civil War, the Spanish-American War and World War I. The monument seen at center memorializes the soldiers of the Civil War and was erected in 1909.