Italian Pentecostal Church, Pike Street - ca.1940  Here's another church that was not lost, but transformed. Founded as a prayer meeting...

St. John's Episcopal Church  on Bay Street in Rosebank, like Christ Church, is another monument to the importance of wealthy Episcopalia...

The Episcopalian Churches: Part 1 Once upon a time, the Episcopalian Church was the denomination of America's elite. Eleven of our fo...

Here's the second installment of North Shore Staten Island Methodist churches. Since the previous posting, I've already learned sig...

In response to a request from Peter M., I did a little research on the British Revolutionary War-era forts here on Staten Island. He's p...

Here's a set of Yesterday and Today pictures. It's the Capitol Theater on Broadway just above the corner of Castleton Avenue. One of...

To look at the buildings on Bay Street in the past and then today, it's as if they've melted. The intricate details that were ju...

One of the things I can never quite wrap my head around as I do my excavation of the history of Staten Island's North Shore is the amoun...

I've seen this post card for years now but I never took the ten minutes or so to figure out exactly where these two house were. I just ...

- left -    93 Franklin Avenue  - 1930 - right - same site today left -  105 Franklin Avenue  - 1930  - right...

   Somehow I've never posted pictures of this Golden Age remnant before now.  The Gardiner-Tyler House  was built in 1837 (according to ...