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Church of All Souls, ca. 1908. The bold, polychrome Byzantine Revival church was designed by Jacob Wrey Mould and completed in 1855. Mould used red and yellow stone, from Philadelphia and Italy, respectively, to create a distinctive — and divisive — visual effect. The church earned nicknames, including “Church of the Holy Zebra” and “Beefsteak Church.” By the early 20th century, the building was somewhat worse for wear and was sold for development in 1929. Two years later, it was destroyed in a fire.
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All Souls' Church, northeast corner of Madison Avenue and East 66th Street, New York City, April 17, 1891.
9 Gramercy Park South
7 and 9 East 20th Street. Holtz Building.
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Manhattan: 4th Avenue - 19th Street (East) Fourth Ave., east side, north from East 19th to 23rd Streets, showing two churches and a hotel, prominent of which is the All Souls Unitarian Church at the S.W. corner of East 20th Street. Occupying the S.E. and N.E. corners of East 21st Street respectively are the New Amsterdam Hotel and Calvary P.E. Church. The Unitarian Church at which George P. Baker, Joseph Choate, William Cullen Bryant and Peter Cooper were worshipers, was demolished in 1929 and the property sold for a Club hotel which never materialized and the site vacant since. The congregation meanwhile moved into a newly constructed edifice at Lexington Ave. and East 80th Street. According to the New York Times of March 26, 1938 a new 6-story apartment house will shortly rise here at a cost of $600,000. Brown Brothers. Neg #3222.
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East 20th Street and Fourth Avenue. All Souls Unitarian Church. View to show disintegrating marble
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East 20th Street and Fourth Avenue. All Souls Unitarian Church. View to show disintegrating marble
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Manhattan: 4th Avenue - 20th Street (East) Fourth Avenue, east side and E. 20th Street. The first Uniterian Church in New York City. The Society was incorporated in 1839 as the First Congregational Church of New York, from the outcome of serving conducted by William Hilery Channing. Edward Everett preached at the dedication services of this church in Chambers Street 1820. About 1900. Urbrock Collection
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