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Immanuel Lutheran Church
124 East 88th Street
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The Immanuel Lutheran Church was founded by German immigrants in Yorkville in 1863. The congregation initially settled on East 87th Street near Lexington Avenue. Its current building at 122 East 88th Street, seen in this 1937 photo, was designed in 1886 in a Gothic Revival style by Arthur Crooks. Its 200-foot granite tower houses bells given to the church as a gift from the Empress of Germany in the later nineteenth century. By the turn of the twentieth century, the church was one of the largest Lutheran churches in New York City and was devoted exclusively to German-language services.
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Immanuel Lutheran Church, April, 1961. The Immanuel Lutheran Church, a Gothic edifice designed by Arthur Crooks, features a 200-foot bell tower at the corner of 88th Street and Lexington Avenue. The tower houses three bells, presented as a gift from Empress Auguste Victoria of Germany at the church’s 1886 dedication, in recognition of the German heritage of many Immanuel congregants. In June 1969, blasting for the construction of a new Gimbel’s department store one block south caused Immanuel’s vaulted plaster ceiling to collapse, damaging the church interior and stained glass windows. Luckily, the altar and hand-carved Black Forest reredos (the carved, wooden decoration behind the altar area) were unharmed.
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Manhattan: Lexington Avenue - 87th Street (1) Lexington Ave., west side, south from East 88th to 87th Streets, showing lImmanuel Ltheran Church at the S.W. corner of the former, and a demolition, at the N.W. corner of the latter. August 13, 1937. George D. Chinn. (2) 1290-98 Lexington Ave., at the N.W. corner of East 87th Street, showing a 5-story apartment house, the Columbia, under demolitiom, Thtw site, in conjunction with Nos. 133 to 125 East 87th Street (left) will be improved with a modern structure for the Consolidated Gas and Electric Co., as their Yorkville office. August 13, 1937. George D. Chinn. (3) An extensive view northward on the west side of the Ave. and showing the new 2-story structure that will house the Yorkville office of the Consolidated Gas and Electric Co. November 14, 1937. P. L. Sperr.
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