St. Gregory’s Auditorium

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Address: 87th Avenue and Cross Island Parkway
Neighborhood: Bellerose
Architect:  Boegel and Allodi
Year: 1966
Current Status: Extant
Award:  Bronze Plaque for Schools and Colleges
Typology:  Religious Building

St. Gregory’s Auditorium is an addition to St. Gregory the Great School, itself founded in 1953. The school faces 87th Avenue but the auditorium faces a service road of Cross Island Parkway and an embankment of the parkway itself. The building’s design uses traditional materials of red brick. limestone trim, and Vermont slate on the roof. The building’s name is inscribed above the entrance.