Old St. James Episcopal Church. 1922.

St. James is the oldest surviving Anglican building in New York City and the oldest structure in Elmhurst. Built in 1735, the single-story wood-frame church served the Anglican community in what was then the town of Newtown. By 1848 the parish had outgrown the building and moved to a new church, though the old building remained, as did its small churchyard cemetery. After the church moved to the new structure, this building was used as a Sunday School and parish hall. Its tower (part of the original building, and replaced in 1760) was destroyed in a storm in 1883 and never rebuilt. In the 1883 renovations after the tower collapse, Victorian architectural elements were added, such as drip moldings, decorative bracketing on the gables, and pointed arched window openings. A necessary and thorough restoration of the church was undertaken in 2004, and the church was brought back to its polished 1883 Victorian style. Today it is used as a meeting space for community groups.

The church has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1999 and in 2017 was calendared for landmark designation.