The congregation became part of the Presbyterian Church in 1715 and built a structure that was demolished during the American Revolutionary War.

Both the church building and manse were moved in 1924 when Queens Boulevard was widened, and the parish hall was built in 1931.

[8][9][10] The next year, Newtown purchased a house and 12 acres (4.9 ha) from Samuel Coe for use as a parsonage.

[10][11] The Church of England became the Province of New York's official religion after the passage of the Ministry Act of 1693.

[12][13][14] As a consequence of the act, the parish of Jamaica was extended to cover the towns of Flushing and Newtown.

[7][14] Subsequently, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG) became responsible for appointing the parish's Anglican rectors, who generally served multiple congregations at the time.

[2][15] During the same period, New York's provincial governor, Lord Cornbury, refused to let any pastor preach in the province if they dissented from the Church of England.

[20][21] At the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War in 1775, most of Newtown's inhabitants were Loyalists who sided with the British.

[22][23] Following the Battle of Long Island in August 1776, Newtown was occupied by the British, and public worship at the church was suspended.

[34] A manse was built in 1821, and an adjacent plot of land for the church's cemetery was donated the next year.

[36][39] John Goldsmith Payntar, a wealthy merchant from Newtown and a member of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, died in August 1891.

[43] The congregation erected another building east of the bell tower, which was used by the Christian Endeavor organization as a meeting hall.

Jacob Mallmann, resigned five months afterward as a result of a dispute over the maintenance of the new church building.

[48] The city government formed a commission in 1912 to expropriate land and compensate property owners.

Beginning in February 1924 and continuing until late that year, the current 3,000-short-ton (2,700 t) church was moved 125 feet (38 m) south.

[54] The church hired Meyer & Mathieu to design a new parish house, which was built by Charles R. Krieg Inc. in 1931 at a cost of $75,000.

Charles Sorg, continued to conduct services entirely in English, saying that this would unite immigrants with a single language and "enable people to accommodate themselves into the American scene".

[58] To celebrate the church's 350th anniversary in 2003, the congregation planted two trees of Newtown Pippins, a type of apple that had first been grown in a nearby orchard in the 17th or 18th century.

[1][61] The church complex is oriented northeast to southwest along the southeastern side of 54th Avenue between Seabury Street and Queens Boulevard.

The main facade of the church faces Queens Boulevard to the northeast, outside the entrance to the New York City Subway's Grand Avenue–Newtown station.

[41][63] It was intended as a replica of Cherry Valley, New York's English Gothic style Presbyterian Church.

There are quoins made of brownstone on all of the building's corners, as well as a string course between the windows of the northwestern facade (which faces 54th Avenue).

[44] The main facade facing Queens Boulevard shows the Ascension of Jesus, with a smaller window to either side.

[44][70] The manse, which dates from 1907, is a nine-room, 2+1⁄2-story L-shaped house along Seabury Street to the southwest, near the corner with 54th Avenue.

A porch with columns ran around the manse, and there was a keystone above the rounded dormer window on the main facade.

It is topped by a hip roof, with a brick chimney above the center and a dormer window projecting above the second floor on the southwest and southeast sides.

[72] The parish house, also called the social hall, is a two-story Collegiate Gothic-style building erected in 1931 by Charles R. Krieg Inc.[54] It is connected to the southwestern facade of the church and faces southwest toward Seabury Street.

The parish house has a gable roof made of slate, a steel-and-concrete frame, and a brick facade above a stone base.

The main double door on Seabury Street has a stone surround and an inscription identifying it as the Church House.

[73] The lower story has six classrooms, a kitchen, a "church parlor" with a fireplace and beamed ceiling, locker rooms, and restrooms.