Church of the Ascension (Manhattan)

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Church of the Ascension
National Register of Historic Places
National Historic Landmark
2007

2007

Church of the Ascension (Manhattan) (Manhattan)
Paris plan pointer b jms.svg
location 36-38 Fifth Avenue
Manhattan , New York City
Coordinates 40 ° 44 '1.3 "  N , 73 ° 59' 46.2"  W Coordinates: 40 ° 44 '1.3 "  N , 73 ° 59' 46.2"  W.
Built 1840/41 (church)
1888/89 (rectory)
architect Richard Upjohn (Church)
McKim, Mead, and White (Rectory)
Architectural style Neo-Gothic (church)
Neo-Renaissance (parsonage)
NRHP number 87002593
The NRHP added December 23, 1987
Declared as an  NHL December 23, 1987

The Church of the Ascension is an Anglican church belonging to the Episcopal Diocese of New York . It is located at the Fifth Avenue 36-38 and West 10th Street in the district of Greenwich Village in Manhattan ( New York City ). The neo-Gothic building was designed by the architect Richard Upjohn and built in 1840/41 as the first church on Fifth Avenue. The interior was remodeled by Stanford White from 1885 to 1888 .

The church parsonage is located at 12 West 11th Street between Fifth Avenue and Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue). It was originally built as a residential home in 1844 and redesigned in the neo-renaissance style in 1888/89 by the architects McKim, Mead, and White .

In 1987 the church was granted National Historic Landmark status . The church and rectory are part of the Greenwich Village Historic District , which was listed by the Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1969 .

history

The parish was founded in 1827. Their first church, on the north side of Canal Street east of Broadway , was one of the few Greek Revival- style churches in New York City. It was built in 1828/29 by the Town & Thompson architects, a partnership between Ithiel Town and Martin Euclid Thompson . The building was destroyed by fire in 1839, which led the parish to settle in the current building. Before the new church was completed, the congregation used several houses for worship.

Shortly after the new church opened on June 26, 1844, Julia Gardiner married US President John Tyler there . Since Gardiner was much younger than Tyler, the couple was referred to by John Quincy Adams as "the town's joke."

In 1865 the parish established a mission church at 249 West 43rd Street, originally named the Chapel of the Shepherd's Flock and later the Ascension Memorial Chapel . A sanctuary was built there in 1895 and was "the little stone church at Times Square " ( The Little Brick Church in Times Square named).

In response to the 1929 Wall Street crash , Rev. Donald Bradschaw Aldrich left the doors of the church open day and night as an invitation to prayer and meditation. The church was therefore known as the " Church of Open Doors " and attracted around 30,000 visitors in the 1960s. Although the church is no longer open all the time, the colorful church windows are illuminated at night.

architecture

Richard Upjohn's design for the Church of the Ascension is closely related to his designs for the Trinity Church , which was built earlier from 1839, and the later Christ Church in Brooklyn . The Church of the Ascension was built symmetrically with reddish brown sandstone. It has a square tower.

The interior designed by Stanford White has been described as "one of the best collaborative achievements of the time". The pulpit and mosaics were created by Charles Follen McKim and D. Maitland Armstrong . The marble altarpiece was made by Louis Saint-Gaudens , brother of Augustus Saint-Gaudens . John LaFarge created several windows as well as the altar mural The Ascension with dimensions 9.1 × 11 meters. The picture is considered one of his best works.

The rectory was designed by McKim, Mead, and White in a neo -renaissance style with yellow brick and bottle glass windows.

music

Since it was built in 1840/41, the church has had several organs. Today's organ is the Manton Memorial Organ , which was inaugurated on May 1, 2011. It was built by Pascal Quoirin of Saint-Didier in Provence (southern France). It is the first organ from France to be installed in New York City. It replaced the earlier organ that was manufactured by the Holtkamp Organ Company in 1966. The dispositions of all organs of the Church of the Ascension are available on the New York City Chapter of the American Guild of Organists website .

photos

See also

Individual evidence

  1. a b Church of the Ascension. (No longer available online.) In: National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service September 10, 2007; Archived from the original on March 4, 2012 ; accessed on April 22, 2015 (English).
  2. a b c d e f g h i New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission , Andrew S. Dolkart and Matthew A. Postal: Guide to New York City Landmarks . 4th edition. John Wiley & Sons, New York 2009, ISBN 978-0-470-28963-1 (English).
  3. a b c d Church of the Ascension (Episcopal). In: nycago.org. New York City Chapter of the American Guild of Organists , accessed January 1, 2020 .
  4. Carolyn Pitts: Church of the Ascension (Protestant Episcopal) - National Register of Historic Places Inventory. (PDF) In: National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form. National Park Service , December 20, 1986; accessed January 1, 2020 .
  5. ^ Church of the Ascension (Protestant Episcopal), Two accompanying photos, interior. (PDF) In: National Register of Historic Places Inventory - 1976. National Park Service, December 20, 1986, accessed January 1, 2020 .
  6. ^ A b c d e Norval White , Elliot Willensky and Fran Leadon: AIA Guide to New York City . 5th edition. Oxford University Press, New York 2010, ISBN 978-0-19-538386-7 (English).
  7. a b c d e f David W. Dunlap : From Abyssinian to Zion: A Guide to Manhattan's Houses of Worship . Columbia University Press, New York 2004, ISBN 0-231-12543-7 , pp. 17-18 (English).
  8. ^ Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace : Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 . Oxford University Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-511634-8 , pp. 467 (English).
  9. ^ A b Federal Writers' Project : New York City Guide . Random House, New York City 1939, ISBN 978-1-60354-055-1 , pp. 135 (English, archive.org - reissued by Scholarly Press in 1976; better known as the WPA Guide to New York City ).

Web links

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