Forest Hills Jewish Center

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Address: 106-06 Queens Boulevard
Neighborhood: Forest Hills
Architect:  Furman, Joseph J.
Year: 1949
Current Status: Extant
Award:  Honorable Mention
Typology:  Religious Building

There were two Jewish Centers honored in 1949 (the Jewish Center of Kew Gardens Hills being the other). Here, a more restrained modernism was employed with a slightly convex front facade faced in a warm stone block and featuring a center, three-door entrance topped by tall stained glass windows. There is very little overt detailing, only with small Jewish symbols and phrases carved above the entrance doors. The principal side elevation also features the same stone and a long bay of stained glass windows framed in concrete. At the rear of the site is a five-story school building. This structure is clad in yellow brick that harmonizes well with the stone of the Jewish Center, a cantilevered entrance canopy, and International style casement windows.