St. Mark’s in the Bowery’s Sanctionary. On April 25, 1795 the cornerstone was laid for St. Marks Church-in-the-Bowery — a historic cornerstone itself of our neighborhoods. What no one knew…
Read More…Collegiate Church of New York is co-affiliated with the United Church of Christ and the Reformed Church in America.” – Quote from Middle Church’s Website: https://www.middlechurch.org/about/ Jerriese Johnson Gospel Choir…
Read MoreOne of my favorite places in New York has always been St. Marks Church-in-the-Bowery on 2nd Avenue and 10th Street. Long before I actually stepped inside it’s peaceful courtyard or…
Read More…National Register report. St. Mark’s Church-In-The-Bowery 131 East 10th Street Open Sunday, May 22nd from 1pm-3pm St. Mark’s in the Bowery was constructed in 1795-99 on the site of the…
Read More…stuffed.” Read the full history of this site and Temple Emanu-El on the map here. St. James Presbyterian Church St. James Presbyterian Church at 409 West 141st Street, on the…
Read More…Here is an exhaustive survey of every church in the Greenwich Village Historic District. St. Lukes-in-the-Fields ST. LUKE’S-IN-THE-FIELDS, 479-485 Hudson Street Starting with the oldest and the farthest west, this…
Read More…Tubman and Frederick Douglass were also members. AME Zion Church, formerly at the northeast corner of West 10th Street and Bleecker Street, where 213 West 10th Street currently stands. The…
Read MoreStanding diagonally on its lot at the intersection of East 10th Street, Stuyvesant Street, and 2nd Avenue, St. Marks Church-in-the-Bowery is the oldest site of continuous worship in our city….
Read More…churches, including Mother A.M.E. Zion Church, the Abyssinian Baptist Church, and St. James Presbyterian Church established their present-day homes in Upper Manhattan in the 1920s. Yet all three can trace…
Read More…West 138th Street, 2017. The Abyssinian Baptist Church at 136-142 West 138th Street was formally dedicated on Sunday, June 17th, 1923. It was the first building Charles W. Bolton &…
Read More…Help of Christians end with the same fate as St. Ann’s on East 12th Street. Despite our urgent plea to the Landmarks Preservation Commission to landmark the buildings, the future…
Read More…Street. The parish grew out of the Ukrainian Autocephalic Orthodox Church of St. Volodymyr, established in 1926 at the former First German Baptist Church at 334 East 14th Street (now…
Read More…City’s and the East Village’s immigrant history. 345 East 4th Street This structure was originally built in 1891-92 and designed by Edward Wenz for the Church of St. Elizabeth of…
Read More…its very first vote, designating the city’s very first landmarks, including three (or six, depending upon how you count them) in our neighborhoods. The images of the first LPC Agenda…
Read More…Street Presbyterian Church, 246 Spring Street Founded in 1809, Spring Street Presbyterian Church was one of the city’s most prominent and vocal abolitionist churches. The church had a multiracial Sunday…
Read MoreOne of the East Village’s few individually designated New York City landmarks is a distinctive Gothic Revival church at 545 East 11th Street. The building, today known as Father’s Heart…
Read More…to protect their investment from the white-run Methodist church. AME Zion Church, West 10th Street and Bleecker Street. The congregation worshipped here from 1864-1904. The church thrived, operating out of…
Read More…Methodist Protestant Church in 1837, and then sold to the Sullivan Street Methodist Church in 1842. The Bethel AME Church purchased the church in 1862. It is noted on maps…
Read More…2013, the same year the church merged with the closed St. Emeric Church on Avenue D to form the modern-day St. Brigid-St. Emeric Church. The building was the inspiration for…
Read More…stepped down, the church’s ministries and partners started looking for a new home that was unaffiliated with the Methodist church’s conflicted stance against LGBTQ clergy and members. The Salsa Sisters…
Read More…10th Street St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, 131 East 10th Street Kicking off this tour, it makes sense to start with the oldest East Village church and probably the most well…
Read More…“Hancock Street” between Houston and Bleecker Street, just west of MacDougal Street. The dotted red line shows the route of the Sixth Avenue El, which hooked onto West 3rd Street…
Read MoreTo honor and recognize LGBT Pride Month, each year the St. Marks Church-In-The-Bowery produces an art installation along 2nd Avenue between 10th and 11th Street, the Pride Ribbon Project. The…
Read More…Sites Open House is St. John’s in the Village, at 224 Waverly Place (corner of West 11th Street). The church can trace its origins to St. Jude’s Free Episcopal Church,…
Read More…St. Mark’s in the Bowery Church. Saint Nicholas of Myra Orthodox Church (images courtesy of the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission/ Chris Brazee) St. Mark’s in the Bowery was founded in…
Read More…their special histories, and reveal their (sometimes hidden) connections to the Village. The St. James Presbyterian Church at 409 West 141st Street, on the corner of St. Nicholas Avenue, stands…
Read More…to Five Points, and then to Midtown. Today, the church lives on as the St. James Presbyterian Church at 409 West 141st Street, founded in 1895. St. James Presbyterian Church…
Read More…in numerous suffragist and abolitionist activities. Not Yet Landmarked: 285-287 East 3rd Street 285-287 East 3rd Street (left), and Steve Cannon Nos. 285 and 287 East 3rd Street (between Avenues…
Read More…justice. However, due to the United Methodist Church’s stance on homosexuality, Egan and Abels were driven from their ministries. The Church of the Village is committed to rectifying this injustice….
Read MoreGrace Church 1905 Today we celebrate the glorious structure on the corner of Broadway and East 10th Street: Grace Church in New York. On this day in 1966, Grace Church…
Read More…built as the Hammond Street Presbyterian Church. The original church was a monumental structure at this corner at West 11th Street and West 4th Street. The temple front portico on…
Read More…decade as a home of some of the most transformative figures of the post-Stonewall era in the LGBT civil rights movement. 186 Spring Street, prior to demolition. Starting in 1969,…
Read More…and the shrinking resources of another, the United States Postal Service. The church steeple sitting on East 12th Street was part of the 12th Street Baptist Church, built on this…
Read More…Over the years, the ornate stained glass windows that depict stories from the Bible that you see today and the marble steeple that towers above were eventually added. Grace Church…
Read More…the Gay Officer’s Action League/St. Joseph’s Church, 371 Sixth Avenue St. Joseph’s is the oldest extant intact Catholic Church in New York City, built in 1833. But In 1982, the first…
Read More…St. Brigid’s during restoration in 2011. Image via Committee to Save St. Brigid’s Church The restored church On January 27, 2013, following years of renovation work, St. Brigid’s was re-opened to…
Read More…the Church of St. Benedict the Moor. Established in 1883 as the first northern church for black Roman Catholics, in 1892 St. Benedict the Moor moved into a beautiful Greek…
Read More…United States. Then in 1979, it was one of the first churches in the Anglican Communion to appoint a woman as assistant priest. St. Luke’s hosts one of the oldest…
Read MoreJudson Memorial Church Judson Memorial Church is an extraordinary institution for countless reasons; its architecture, its dedication to inclusion, its history of providing free healthcare, its outspoken advocacy on issues…
Read More…Mangin, a French-born architect and engineer, designed the church. St. Patrick’s Cathedral (now referred to as “Old St. Patrick’s Cathedral”) was completed in 1815 (it later burned down and was…
Read More…the beautiful building – the style of which is described by the Landmarks Preservation Commission as “Italian Renaissance Eclectic” – is here to stay! The church will be one of…
Read More…York, one of which stood at Broadway and 10th Street, where The Stewart House apartment building now stands. the A.T. Stewart “Marble Palace” at Broadway and 10th Street. Stewart House…
Read More…in Greenwich Village connected to immigrant history, including the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire building, which still stands at 23-29 Washington Place; St. Anthony of Padua Church at 151 Thompson Street, the…
Read More…Presbyterian Church on the unique history of the former Spring Street Presbyterian Church. Erected in 1810 on the corner of Spring Street and Varick, the Spring Street Presbyterian Church was…
Read More…Ludlow and Reverend Cox of the Laight Street Presbyterian Church, an off-shoot of the Spring Street Church, were attacked and sacked by a riled-up mob in July of that year….
Read MoreThe 1892 McKim, Mead & White Italianate Eclectic style Baptist church on Washington Square set the scene for some of feminist artist Carolee Schneemann’s most notorious works of kinetic theater…
Read MoreSt. Benedict the Moor was the first Church for Black Roman Catholics in the North, dedicated on November 18th, 1883 at 210 Bleecker Street. St. Benedict the Moor Church opened…
Read More…The First Presbyterian Church Isaiah, by Tiffany Studios, located on the northern wall of the church nave. Photo: The First Presbyterian Church. The Scotch Presbyterians, by Tiffany Studios, located on…
Read More…The First Presbyterian Church Isaiah, by Tiffany Studios, located on the northern wall of the church nave. Photo: The First Presbyterian Church. The Scotch Presbyterians, by Tiffany Studios, located on…
Read More…despite several extensive renovations, the church that stands now is still the original. St. Bernard’s, at 328-332 West 14th Street and now known as Our Lady of Guadalupe at St. Bernard’s,…
Read More…first openly-gay NYPD officer. St. Bernard’s Church at 336-338 West 14th Street (8th-9th Avenues) was built in 1873 by the great Irish church architect Patrick Charles Keely. Historically, St. Bernard’s Parish was…
Read More…first openly-gay NYPD officer. St. Bernard’s Church at 336-338 West 14th Street (8th-9th Avenues) was built in 1873 by the great Irish church architect Patrick Charles Keely. Historically, St. Bernard’s Parish was…
Read MoreOne of the East Village’s earliest designated but perhaps least well known landmarks, is the Church of the Immaculate Conception and Clergy House, located at 406–412 East 14th Street between First Avenue and Avenue A, and…
Read MoreThe Thirteenth Street Presbyterian Church in 1902, courtesy of the New-York Historical Society, Robert L. Bracklow Photograph Collection The stately church building at 141-145 West 13th Street in the West Village…
Read More…going to be affiliated with them. The building, which still stands today, is now called The Dominick. Still Here: St. Mark’s in the Bowery Church, 131 East 10th Street St.…
Read More…other incredibly important sites in Greenwich Village connected to immigrant history, including the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire building, which still stands at 23-29 Washington Place; St. Anthony of Padua Church at…
Read More…Avenue A and 12th Street, and St. Ann’s on East 12th Street where 10 years ago the 160 year old church was demolished to build a 26-story NYU dorm, although the church facade…
Read MoreSaint Mark’s-in-the-Bowery Church, 19th Century We continue the Landmarks50 celebration by taking a deeper look at Saint Marks-in-the-Bowery Church at 131 East 10th Street. This landmark represents construction over a…
Read More…interested in its creation.” St. Benedict the Moor Church, 210 Bleecker Street St. Benedict the Moor building, no longer extant St. Benedict the Moor was the first Church for Black…
Read More…copied Greek Revival distyle-in-antis style of church architecture (meaning, two columns between antae). This was the last church of this style built by the firm and was likely, before it’s…
Read More…stands now is still the original. St. Veronica’s, located on Christopher Street between Washington and Greenwich Streets, was built to accommodate the growing congregation of St. Joseph’s, as the Irish…
Read More206 East 11th Street We’ve long been curious about the history of the All Saints Ukrainian Church, which we pass by everyday because it’s located just down the block from…
Read More…The fourth post in the series, by Burke Blackman, Daniella Lurion and Anne Marie Marten, focuses on East 3rd Street between Avenues A & B. East 3rd Street between Avenues…
Read More…cemetery area is now St. Luke’s North Garden, home to two 100-year-old Silver Maples, shading what was once part of the church’s burial grounds. St. Luke’s Church in 1831 (NYPL)…
Read More…York City landmark. First German Baptist Church Percy L. Sperr, “Manhattan 14th Street (East) – 1st Avenue,” 1936 Source: New York Public Library, Photographic Views of New York City Designed…
Read More…PS 64 and 129 Charles Street; bottom row, left to right: 421-425 West 13th Street and 14 St. Luke’s Place Alterations to landmarked buildings that require an LPC public hearing…
Read MoreThe University Parish of St. Joseph’s (left) and The Church of St. Veronica-in-the-Village (right). With St. Patrick’s Day just this past Saturday, we thought we would take a look at…
Read More…Cross, was just that — an Open Door — for almost 20 years. St. John’s in the Village, at the corner of Waverly Place and West 11th Street Pastoral Work…
Read More…sides were just up in arms”) and the new structure replacing the house destroyed by the Weatherman bomb explosion on West 11th Street. The Weathermen house, destroyed on West 11th…
Read More…Just next door are our next two ‘almost-landmarks,’ the Greek Revival houses at 132 and 134 West 4th Street. Both date to 1839, and were among the grandest houses ever…
Read More…this neighborhood is lost the importance of the proposed East Village – Lower East Side and East 10th Street Historic Districts grows even more important. GVSHP strongly advocated for these…
Read MoreThe newly renovated St. Brigid’s Church. Image via EVGrieve. Yesterday, after years of renovation work, St. Brigid’s church on Avenue B and East 8th Street was re-opened to the public….
Read More…Shrine Church of St. Anthony of Padua 154 Sullivan Street (corner of West Houston Street) The Shrine Church of Saint Anthony of Padua on West Houston and Sullivan Streets in…
Read More…with the easternmost and the oldest of the structures, Grace Church was built in 1846-47 by famed architect James Renwick, who also designed such landmarks as St. Patrick’s Cathedral and…
Read More…House is another beautiful landmark in the East Village: St. Mark’s Church-in-the Bowery at the corner of 10th Street and Second Avenue. Built in stages beginning in 1799, the church…
Read MoreNote: This is an updated version of a post originally written by Amanda Davis Two recent Landmarks applications at Jane Street (11 Jane and 85-89 Jane) have garnered a lot…
Read More…within New York State, to pass their landmarks legislation. Last car through Washington Square Park, 1958. Tankel Collection, Village Preservation Besides these men, as we have highlighted, women were an essential…
Read More…in the 1980s, the St. Marks Historic District Extension, was created to include just two houses, Nos. 102 and 104 East 10th Street, which were left out of the original…
Read More…First Presbyterian Church in winter. The image is taken at 12th Street and Fifth Avenue, looking south. Indeed, the Church of the Ascension, at 10th Street, is visible as well….
Read More…and 112 through 128 East 10th Street began in 1859. This house is part of the St. Mark’s Historic District, designated 1969. St. Marks Place- 12 St. Marks Place …
Read More…New York State. Situated on the edge of the East River, the sign was clearly visible from Manhattan’s East Side and the recently completed FDR (then-East River) Drive. The sign’s…
Read More…West 10th Street, drawing of existing (left) and proposed (right) partial front facade 304 West 10th Street, existing (left) and proposed in rendering (right) A recent addition to our Landmarks…
Read More…cast-iron architecture. The portico at St. Mark’s is attributed to him. St. Mark’s Church stands on the oldest site of continuous worship in New York City and is the city’s…
Read More…avoid the crowds and relax in a little corner of shade and greenery just around the corner, Sir Winston Churchill Square. “What does Winston Churchill have to do with Greenwich…
Read More…Pompeii Church, which stands on the corner of Bleecker and Carmine Streets. Our Lady of Pompeii Church, source forgotten-ny.com The building that stands today was constructed in the years 1926…
Read More…Church once located at 141-145 West 13th Street in the West Village is no different. Highlighted previously in our Beyond the Village and Back series, the elegant Greek Revival structure,…
Read More…the near-twins at 636 and 638 East 6th Street, which now function as a Pentecostal Church and the Sixth Street Community Center, respectively. 7. Chameleon churches The church at 345 East 4th Street today,…
Read More…on the Landmarks Application page to contact the Community Board or the Landmarks Preservation Commission. The final section on the page is Status of this Application. This section provides updates…
Read More…135 Bowery was stripped of its landmark status by the City Council. Reflecting the changing demographics of the neighborhood in 1870, the buildings at 19 and 21 St. Marks Place…
Read More…Marble Cemetery, they have very similar-looking stone walls separating them from the surrounding residential properties, just as the East 11th Street/Old St. Patrick’s Cemetery probably once did. New York City…
Read More…of St. Anthony of Padua, will present a slideshow and history of the church and the parish. Our previous programs in this series were The First Presbyterian Church, on April…
Read MoreSt. Mark’s Historic District Extension identified here with red lines The St. Mark’s Historic District Extension was designated 15 years after the St. Mark’s Historic District and only consists of…
Read MoreTomorrow, July 12th, marks a big day for landmark review in the East Village. That’s because Community Board 3‘s Landmarks Subcommittee will be holding its first public hearing regarding proposed…
Read More…dedicated — became the New York Liberty Bell’s new home after it was transferred from St. Nicholas. Today, the Middle Collegiate Church remains part of the East Village/Lower East Side…
Read More…area, starting in 1807 with completion of St. John’s Chapel next to Hudson Square, which was also known as St. John’s Park, bounded by Varick, Beach, Hudson, and Laight Streets….
Read More…Beaux Arts buildings to modest or vernacular structures. The oldest one dates to 1799, while the youngest dates to 1935, and they include among the very first designated landmarks in…
Read More“Man pulling piano down street, St. Marks Place just west of 2nd Avenue,” Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation Image Archive, part of Carole Teller’s Changing New York collection. This…
Read More…applications currently on our Landmarks Application webpage for you to peruse: Photos of 15 & 17 King Street from an application for 17 King Street, circa 1940. The photos above…
Read MoreAt their March 27th public meeting, the Landmarks Preservation Commission designated four individual landmarks located in Hudson Square. These new landmarks – 32 Dominick Street, 34 Dominick Street, 36 Dominick…
Read More…of those impressive landmarks. Village East Cinema, 181-189 Second Avenue What we know today as the Village East Cinema at the corner of Second Avenue and East 12th Street was…
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