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Tompkins Avenue Presbyterian Church
69 MacDonough Street
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The Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant, better known as Bed-Stuy, has a long and rich history. Many historic buildings occupy the neighborhood, reminding residents and visitors of a not-so-distant past. Take a walk back through time and explore some of the historic buildings and sites in Bed-Stuy.
Tompkins Avenue Presbyterian Church
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St. Matthew’s Protestant Episcopal Church (formerly Tompkins Avenue Presbyterian Church), ca. 1905. This red brick Victorian Gothic church was built in the early 1870s, by Massachusetts-born architect George Hathorne. However, by July, 1875, the church had been foreclosed on, and was rented to the Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church. In 1889, the Congregational Church moved into a brand-new structure directly across MacDonough Street, and the original Tompkins Avenue Presbyterian Church was sold to St. Matthew’s Protestant Episcopal. Since 1944, the Stuyvesant Heights Christian Church has worshipped there.
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Tompkins Avenue Presbyterian Church
MacDonough Street and Tompkins Avenue. St. Matthew's Protestant Episcopal church, exterior.
Tompkins Avenue Presbyterian Church
Interior of St. Matthew's Church Interior, St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, McDonough Street and Tompkins Avenue, with pews, altar, painting and stained glass windows behind altar, organ and pipes in left front, pulpit and order of service sign ("Easter" at top) in right front, and chandeliers.
Tompkins Avenue Presbyterian Church
\[Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church] Facade and clock tower of Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church, Tompkins Avenue and McDonough Street with adjacent and neighboring buildings, intersecting streets, and pedestrians (five boys, 1 girl) in front of church.
Tompkins Avenue Presbyterian Church
Steeplejack puts cross on St. Matthew's Church Facade and steeple of St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, McDonough Street and Tompkins Avenue; steeplejack works with cross on steeple top; portion of residential building (?) in right background.
Tompkins Avenue Presbyterian Church
\[Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church] Interior, Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church, Tompkins Avenue and McDonough Street; pews, hymals, podium with lectern, three chairs, pedestal with vase, potted flowering plants, and evergreen trees and branches; in front of podium: rectangular table and two chairs; at left of podium: baptismal font; above podium: pipe organ and pipes, and choir loft with chair and a tall, ornate lamp on each side.
Tompkins Avenue Presbyterian Church
\[Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church] Facade and clock tower of Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church, Tompkins Avenue and McDonough Street, neighboring residential buildings, parked automobiles, street light, and tree.
Tompkins Avenue Presbyterian Church
\[Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church] Facade and clock tower (partially vine-covered) of Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church, Tompkins Avenue and McDonough Street, neighboring and adjacent buildings, intersecting streets, and, in foreground, boy on sidewalk and two men working (?) on street.
Tompkins Avenue Presbyterian Church
First Reformed Church Facade and tower of First Reformed Church, Bedford Avenue and Clymer Street, with two pedestrians (one man, one boy) in center foreground, street lamp in right foreground, and intersecting, snow-covered streets.
Tompkins Avenue Presbyterian Church
St. Matthew's PE Church Men (all wearing hats) and one or two women on street before St. Matthew's Episcopal Church on McDonough Street and Tompkins Avenue; some men emerging from gabled entrance portico in center; steeple cut off at top; automobiles parked on street and row of brownstones in left background.
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