St. Cecilia's R. C. Church
Facade and tower of St. Cecilia's Church, Herbert Street and North Henry Street, with telephone pole and lines and trees in left foreground, rectory (?), residential building, and two street lamps on far right, and intersecting streets.
Brooklyn Public Library84 Herbert Street Thomas Henry Poole, 1891–93
The congregation of St. Cecilia’s formed in 1869 and originally occupied a small wood-frame church built in 1871. Over the course of the 50-year leadership of Monsignor McGolrick (1857–1938), the congregation vastly grew and the church set out to construct a larger building. This structure, which can hold roughly 1,400 people, is constructed of Georgia marble and limestone, and its altar is made of a cream-colored, French limestone called Caen stone. It features an imposing corner bell tower, capped with a copper roof.
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