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Our Lady of Refuge Church
2020 Foster Avenue
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Our Lady of Refuge Church
Our Lady of Refuge Church Facade of Our Lady of Refuge Church, Ocean Avenue and Foster Avenue, with street light pole in right foreground, small hedge in left foreground and residential buildings on both sides. (A new church building was erected on this same site in 1934.).
Our Lady of Refuge Church
Architect's drawing of proposed R. C. Church of Our lady of Refuge & rectory Rendering (drawing) of proposed Our Lady of Refuge Church, erected at Ocean Avenue and Foster Avenue, with several pedestrians and trees.
Our Lady of Refuge Church
\[Our Lady of Refuge Church site] Vacant lot at Ocean Avenue and Foster Avenue where Our Lady of Refuge Church was erected, with shed-like building in center foreground; also: several trees, seven parked automobiles, one moving automobile, two trucks, workmen, pedestrians; many residential buildings in background.
Our Lady of Refuge Church
Our Lady of Refuge Church Framework of Our Lady of Refuge Church, Ocean Avenue and Foster Avenue, under construction, with parked automobile and truck holding building materials in right foreground, pedestrian in left foreground and trees on both sides. Sign on shed-like building in lower left: "The new church of Our Lady of Refuge, Henry V. Murphy, architect, 208 Livingston St., Brooklyn; Walter Kidde Constructors Incorporated, Engineers and builders, 140 Cedar St., New York City."
Our Lady of Refuge Church
\[Our Lady of Refuge Church] Facade of Our Lady of Refuge Church, Ocean Avenue and Foster Avenue, under construction, and portion of church-related building (rectory) in center foreground; two portrait insets (Rev. William Gately and Rev. James F. Kelly) defaced with grease pencil cropping marks.
Our Lady of Refuge Church
Our Lady of Refuge Facade of Our Lady of Refuge, Ocean Avenue and Foster Avenue, under construction, with framwork, building materials, tree in foreground, and many residential buildings in right background. Sign on shed-like building in lower left: "The new church of Our Lady of Refuge, Henry V. Murphy, architect, 208 Livingston St., Brooklyn; Walter Kidde Constructors Incorporated, Engineers and builders, 140 Cedar St., New York City."
Our Lady of Refuge Church
Our Lady of Refuge Facade (stone) of church with inscription over doorway ("Mater refugium ora pro dei hominum nobis), iron fence (and gate) along front, portion of large tree on each side, and church-related building (rectory?) on far right. Caption: "Our Lady of Refuge Church at Foster and Ocean Aves., dedicated June 17, 1934."
Our Lady of Refuge Church
\[Two views of Our Lady of Refuge Church] Nearly identical views from left of masonry church with spire in rear at Church and Foster Avenues in Flatbush; 0666 shows two men walking on sidewalk at far left; no pedestrians in 0667.
Our Lady of Refuge Church
Palms of peace Man (standing) wearing clerical attire looks at six parishioners (one man, three women, one boy, one girl) and hands palms to two of the women; four other parishioners (one standing, three sitting) in right background. Caption: "Palms of peace--the Rev. Daniel A. Gilroy of Our Lady of Refuge R. C. Church, Ocean and Foster Aves., presents palms to parishioners in Palm Sunday rite ushering in Holy Week, the most sacred period in the Christian calendar. Special services are planned in all of the borough's churches during holy Week."
Our Lady of Refuge Church
\[Our lady of Refuge Church] Facade/framework of Our Lady of Refuge Church, Ocean Avenue and Foster Avenue, under construction, with traffic light, building debris, parked automobiles, and tree in right foreground, truck, moving automobile, building materials, and residential buildings on far left, portion of rectory (?) on far right, and three pedestrians. Sign on shed-like building in center: "The new church of Our Lady of Refuge, Henry V. Murphy, architect, 208 Livingston St., Brooklyn; Walter Kidde Constructors Incorporated, Engineers and builders, 140 Cedar St., New York City."
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