- Church of the Divine Unity
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The Former Church of the Divine Unity General information Architectural style Gothic Revival Town or city New York, New York Country United States of America Construction started ? Completed c.1845 Demolished Before 1866 Cost ? Technical details Structural system Limestone masonry Design and construction Client The American Unitarian Association Architect ? Engineer ? Part of a series on related to
New ThoughtMovementHistory • Discrimination • Criticism
Glossary • Literature - ^ J. Russiello, A Sympathetic Planning Hierarchy for Redundant Churches: A Comparison of Continued Use and Reuse in Denmark, England and the United States of America (MSc Conservation of Historic Buildings, University of Bath, 2008), p.131.
- ^ “Church of the Divine Unity,” Churches of Olde Manhattan Accessed 1 April 2008.
- ^ Robert A. M. Stern, Thomas Mellins, and David Fishman. New York 1880: Architecture and Urbanism in the Gilded Age. (New York: The Monacelli Press, 1999), p.13.
The Church of the Divine Unity was a former Unitarian and Universalist church located on the east side of Broadway between Prince and Spring Streets, SoHo (Manhattan). It was built c.1845 and likely transferred to American Unitarian Association after c. 1854. Subsequently it was adaptively reused as an art gallery, then an office, and finally was demolished sometime before 1866.[1][2]
“On August 6, 1866, [prolific diarist George Templeton] Strong observed ‘another material change in the aspect of Broadway:’ ‘Taylor’s showy restaurant” had become the office of the American Express Company, and Capin’s Universalist Church, which had been serving as an art gallery, on the east side of Broadway between Prince and Spring Streets, was demolished. Strong, neither an apologist for the past nor a dedicated futurist, took a fatalist view: ‘So things go. Let ‘em go!’[3]
