- Our Lady of Mount Carmel Grotto
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Our Lady of Mount Carmel Grotto
Location: 36 Amity St., Staten Island, New York Coordinates: 40°36′44″N 74°4′31″W / 40.61222°N 74.07528°WCoordinates: 40°36′44″N 74°4′31″W / 40.61222°N 74.07528°W Area: less than one acre Built: 1937 Architect: Russo, Vito Architectural style: Grotto Governing body: Private NRHP Reference#: 00001276[1] Added to NRHP: November 02, 2000 Our Lady of Mount Carmel Grotto is a national historic district located at 36 Amity Street in Rosebank, Staten Island, New York. It is a historic Roman Catholic grotto designed and constructed by the local Italian American community. Work on the distinctive concrete and stone folk art structure was begun in 1937 and continues to the present. The property includes the grotto, a frame meeting hall dated to about 1920, and contributing landscape features and ancillary structures and objects.[2]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.[1]
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html.
- ^ Kathleen A. Howe (August 2000). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Our Lady of Mount Carmel Grotto". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=7689. Retrieved 2010-12-06. See also: "Accompanying 22 photos". http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=7719.
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Categories:- Historic districts in New York City
- Churches in Staten Island
- Properties of religious function on the National Register of Historic Places in New York City
- Historic districts in New York
- 1937 architecture
- New York City Region, New York Registered Historic Place stubs
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