St. Helena's Church (Bronx, New York)
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The Church of St. Helena is a Roman Catholic parish church under the authority of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York
, located at Olmstead Avenue at Benedict Avenue, Bronx, New York City
, in the Parkchester
neighborhood. It was established in 1940, and the church building built in the same year to the designs by the prominent architectural firm of Eggers & Higgins
.
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York covers New York, Bronx, and Richmond counties in New York City , as well as Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster, and Westchester counties in New York state. There are 480 parishes...
, located at Olmstead Avenue at Benedict Avenue, Bronx, New York City
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, in the Parkchester
Parkchester, Bronx
Parkchester is a residential neighborhood geographically located in the south central Bronx, New York City. The neighborhood is part of Bronx Community Board 9...
neighborhood. It was established in 1940, and the church building built in the same year to the designs by the prominent architectural firm of Eggers & Higgins
Eggers & Higgins
Eggers & Higgins was a New York architectural firm partnered by Otto Reinhold Eggers and Daniel Paul Higgins . The architects were responsible for the construction phase of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial beginning in 1939, two years after the death of its original architect, John Russell Pope,...
.