- Church of the Nativity (Manhattan)
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Coordinates: 40°43′30.7″N 73°59′23.4″W / 40.725194°N 73.989833°W
The Church of the Nativity 
c.1865General information Architectural style 1832 building:
Greek Revival
1970 building:
ModernistTown or city Manhattan, New York City Country US Construction started 1968 (for church)[1] Completed 1970[2] Demolished 1970[2] Cost $240,000 (for 1968 church)[1] Design and construction Client Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York Architect 1832 building:
Town & Davis
(Alexander Jackson Davis, J.H. Dakin, and James Gallier)[2]
1970 building:
Genovese & Maddalene[1]The Church of the Nativity is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, located at 44 Second Avenue between Second and 3rd Streets in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It was established in 1842 and was formerly staffed by the Jesuit Fathers.[3]
Buildings
The current church
The original painted-timber Greek Revival sanctuary was built in 1832 at 48 Second Avenue[4] as the Second Avenue Presbyterian Church[5] and was designed by the prominent New York firm of Town & Davis, which then included Alexander Jackson Davis, J.H. Dakin, and James Gallier. It consisted of a Greek Doric portico and two-stage steeple.[2] In 1842, it was sold to the newly formed Nativity of Our Lord parish and became the Church of the Nativity.[5] It was demolished in 1970.[6]
The present Modernist church was built from 1968[5] to 1970[6][2] for $240,000 to the designs of Genovese & Maddalene.[1] It has been described as "starkly institutional"[5] and "a modern architectural cartoon exhibiting a gross idea with no detail."[6]
References
- Notes
- ^ a b c d Office for Metropolitan History, "Manhattan NB Database 1900-1986," (Accessed 25 Dec 2010).
- ^ a b c d e White, Norval; Willensky, Elliot; Leadon, Fran (2010) (in English). AIA Guide to New York City. American Institute of Architects New York Chapter (Fifth ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 202. ISBN 97801953867.
- ^ 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.352.
- ^ The World Almanac 1892 and Book of Facts (New York: Press Publishing, 1892), p.390.
- ^ a b c d Dunlap, David W. From Abyssinian to Zion. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-231-12543-7, p.156
- ^ a b c White, Norval & Willensky, Elliot (2000). AIA Guide to New York City (4th ed.). New York: Three Rivers Press. ISBN 0812931076., p.170
External links
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- Demolished churches in New York City
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