The Church Street parking lot is one of Patchogue’s large downtown parking areas. Patchogue Village began purchasing property and houses around the Main Street area in the 1930s. Large parking fields like this were completed in the early 1960s. In 1900, a large annex to the Central Hotel was located in today’s parking lot, possibly to house staff. At another time, a large livery stable and laundry were located here, behind the Central Hotel on Main Street.

Leroy Thurber’s Patchogue Bottling Works was in the parking lot in 1910. There ginger ale, mineral waters, soda and sarsaparilla were bottled for hotels and private homes. A newspaper advertisement promises these drinks contained “No Dirt”.