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Church of Our Lady of Esperanza 
156th Street facade in 2011General information Architectural style Beaux-arts architecture Town or city New York, New York Country United States of America Coordinates 40°50′2″N 73°56′49.2″W / 40.83389°N 73.947°W Construction started 1909[1] Completed 1912[2] Renovated 1924 Cost $50,000[2] Technical details Structural system masonry Design and construction Client Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York Architect Charles P. Huntington[1] Renovating team Architect Lawrence G. White The Church of Our Lady of Esperanza is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, located at 624 West 156th Street in the Washington Heights neighborhood of upper Manhattan in New York City.
The church is part of Audubon Terrace, which was designated a Historic District by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission on January 9, 1979, but it is organizationally separate from the museum complex.[2]
156th Street facade ca. 1921, prior to church's enlargement
History
The parish was founded by Senora Dona Manuela de Laverrerie de Barril, the wife of the Spanish Consul-General in New York.[2][3] Archer Milton Huntington (1870-1955), the railroad magnate and founder of the Hispanic Society of America, was recruited to the cause and funded the project for the second Spanish-speaking Catholic church. The church building was begun in 1909 to designs by Archer's cousin, Charles P. Huntington of 18 West 31st Street.[1] The building was enlarged and extended in 1924 to designs by Lawrence G. White, son of Stanford White.[2]
The first pastor in 1912 was the Rev. Adrian Buisson, formerly pastor of the Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe 229 West 14th Street. Upon his retirement in 1952, the Rev. Francis Soutberg "was appointed Pastor until 1955 when Father Bernard Guillett assumed the position. Presently the Reverend Monsignor Peter O'Donnell is pastor."[2]
References
- ^ a b c Office for Metropolitan History, "Manhattan NB Database 1900-1986," (Accessed 25 Dec 2010).
- ^ a b c d e f James Renner, Historian for Northern Manhattan. Church Of Our Lady Of Esperanza For more information on Washington Heights/inwood, visit James Renner's site at http://www.hhoc.org/hist/ (Accessed 27 Dec 2010)
- ^ Remigius Lafort, S.T.D., Censor, The Catholic Church in the United States of America: Undertaken to Celebrate the Golden Jubilee of His Holiness, Pope Pius X. Volume 3: The Province of Baltimore and the Province of New York, Section 1: Comprising the Archdiocese of New York and the Diocese of Brooklyn, Buffalo and Ogdensburg Together with some Supplementary Articles on Religious Communities of Women.. (New York City: The Catholic Editing Company, 1914), p.355.
Categories:- Religious buildings completed in 1912
- Religious organizations established in 1909
- Roman Catholic churches in New York
- Beaux-Arts architecture in New York
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