- St. Agnes' Church (New York City)
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St. Agnes' Church 
General information Architectural style Gothic Revival(for 1877 church)[1]
Baroque Revival(for 1998 rebuild)[2]Location New York City, United States Construction started 1873[2] Completed 1877 (for church)
1904 (for the sacristy and rectory)[3]
1998 (for rebuild)[2]Demolished 10 December 1992 (fire)[2] Cost $31,000 (for the sacristy and rectory)[3] Technical details Structural system Masonry Design and construction Client Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York Architect Lawrence J. O'Connor (for 1873-1877 church)[2][1]
Jeremiah O'Rourke & Sons of 756 Broad Street, Newark, New Jersey (for 1904 sacristy and rectory)[3]
Acheson, Thornton & Doyle (for 1998 rebuild)[2]The Church of St. Agnes is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, located at 141-143 East 43rd Street, Manhattan, New York City.[4] The parish was established in 1873.[5]
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Parish
Established in 1873, the parish was intended to serve Italian laborers of Grand Central Terminal and Depot.[2][1] The church hosted Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen's radio and television broadcasts on behalf of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith for over half a century. The broadcasts, including the famous "Death of Stalin," were some of the most important influences in reshaping mainstream twentieth-century American attitudes on Catholicism.[1] As an important venue for media, and with its proximity to the center of New York City, the church often played hosts to rallies, such as the starting point for John Cardinal O'Connor's anti-abortion march from this church.[1]
Buildings
The church was built 1873-1877 to the designs of Lawrence J. O'Connor.[2][1]
The parish constructed a four-story brick and stone rectory and sacristy in 1904 to designs by Jeremiah O'Rourke & Sons of 756 Broad Street, Newark, New Jersey for $31,000.[3]
The church burned in 1992.[6]
It was replaced in 1998 by a building designed by Acheson, Thornton, Doyle, patterned after the Church of Il Gesù in Rome and retaining two surviving towers from O'Connor's original church.[2][1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g New York Organ Website (Accessed 26 March 2011)
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Official Church Website (Accessed 26 March 2011)
- ^ a b c d Office for Metropolitan History, "Manhattan NB Database 1900-1986" (Accessed 25 December 2010).
- ^ The World Almanac 1892 and Book of Facts (New York: Press Publishing, 1892), p.390.
- ^ 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.307-308.
- ^ Robert D. McFadden (December 11, 1992). "Fire Guts St. Agnes, a Historic Manhattan Church". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/11/nyregion/fire-guts-st-agnes-a-historic-manhattan-church.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm.
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Categories:- Religious buildings completed in 1877
- 19th-century Roman Catholic church buildings
- Religious buildings completed in 1998
- Demolished churches in New York City
- Religious organizations established in 1873
- Roman Catholic churches in New York
- Churches in Manhattan
- Gothic Revival architecture in New York
- Baroque Revival architecture in New York
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