St. Philip's Episcopal Church (Manhattan)
St. Philip's Episcopal Church | |
Location | 210-216 West 134th Street Manhattan, New York City |
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Coordinates | 40°48′53″N 73°56′43″W / 40.81472°N 73.94528°W |
Built | 1910–1911[2] |
Architect | Tandy & Foster: Vertner W. Tandy George W. Foster, Jr. |
Architectural style | Gothic Revival |
NRHP reference No. | 08000933[1] |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | September 25, 2008 |
Designated NYCL | July 13, 1993 |
St. Philip's Episcopal Church is a historic
History
Previous buildings
The
The first two sites were located on 122
Demographic changes continued as New York expanded and the city developed uptown. New waves of immigrants settled in the oldest housing, and more established residents moved north along the island. Along with its congregation, St. Philip's relocated uptown, by 1886 having a site on 25th Street.[6] It sold this property c.1909 for $600,000. With this money it bought the site of the current church, as well as 10 apartment buildings on West 135th Street in Harlem. This area had previously been restricted to whites only. Some moved beyond the city limits into the developing railroad suburbs.[2] The reredos of the current church came from the church on 25th Street.[3]
Like many other churches, St. Philip's had considerable stability in its leadership through the mid-20th century. Rev.
Current building
The present church building was designed by architects
The church was designated as a
Parishioners
Notable parishioners of St. Philip's included in the nineteenth century, Thomas Jennings, Thomas Downing, his son George T. Downing, Isaiah DeGrasse, Dr. James McCune Smith, and Alexander Crummell.[10] In the twentieth century, members of the church included political and cultural leaders such as professor and public intellectual W. E. B. Du Bois; Thurgood Marshall, NAACP Legal Defense Fund attorney and Supreme Court Justice; and poet and playwright Langston Hughes.[3]
See also
- List of New York City Landmarks
- National Register of Historic Places listings in New York County, New York
- Lafargue Clinic, a mental health clinic that operated in the church basement from 1946 to 1958
References
Notes
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-19538-386-7. p.541
- ^ ISBN 0-231-12543-7., pp. 242-43
- ^ a b Kyle T. Bulthuis. Four Steeples over the City Streets: Religion and Society in New York’s Early Republic Congregations, NYU Press, 2014, pp. 151-152
- ^ Balthius (2014), Four Steeples, p. 148
- ^ a b Church History, St. Philip's Harlem (Accessed 2 August 2010)
- ^ "Bishop, Shelton Hale, 1889-1962". SNAC. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
- ^ Shaver, Peter D. (July 1997). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: St. Philip's Church". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2011-03-25. See also: "Accompanying seven photos".
- ISBN 978-0-470-28963-1. p.203
- ^ Bulthius (2014), Four Steeples, p. 152
Further reading
- Hewitt, John H. Protest and Progress: New York's First Black Episcopal Church Fights Racism, Taylor & Francis, 2000
External links
- Media related to St. Philip's Episcopal Church (Manhattan) at Wikimedia Commons
- Official site