page_title: St. John's Episcopal Church (Jersey City, New Jersey)
section_title: Historic designation
hierarchical_section_title: St. John's Episcopal Church (Jersey City, New Jersey) / Historic designation
caption_attribution_description: English: Looking east across Summit Avenue at St John's church house on a sunny afternoon.
context_page_description: Saint John's Episcopal Church in Jersey City, New Jersey is located on Summit Avenue in Bergen Hill. Owned by the Episcopal Diocese of Newark, it is considered a masterwork of 19th-century ecclesiastical architecture. The building, which has fallen into disrepair, became a municipal landmark in 2013.
context_section_description: The Bergen Hill Historic District, of which the church is a contributing property, was established as a municipal historic district in 1986 and identified in New Jersey's state historic preservation office (SHPO) in 1989/1991 (ID#1481). In 2008, the SHPO issued a certificate of eligibility (ID#4986) for listing individually on both the New Jersey Register of Historic Places and the National Register of Historic Places. Attempts made in 2007/2008 to have the church designated a local landmark were unsuccessful, the motion having been tabled by the Jersey City City Council. When it appeared that the diocese was moving to demolish the building, a campaign was begun to convince the city council to re-visit the issue which it did in  June 2013 and adopted a measure granting landmark status.
caption: Parish House
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