Church of St. Teresa, November 23, 1932.

St. Teresa Catholic Church has occupied this Gothic Revival building since 1863 , but the edifice was not built for them. Completed 21 years earlier, the stone building was constructed as the Rutgers Presbyterian Church. The name of the architect has been lost to time, but he was at the forefront of ecclesiastical architecture. Here he chose an emerging style for New York City religious structures. The four clocks on the bell tower are considered the oldest hand-wound public clocks in the city.

During the 20th century the structural integrity of the building suffered with age, culminating in the 1995 collapse of the vaulted ceiling, which rained 60,000 pounds of plaster though the main floor and into the basement. Facing possible demolition, the parish sold their adjacent property and air rights to fund the repair work. Along with this roof and interior reconstruction came also some restoration efforts, including work on the church's timepieces. The four belfry clocks had stopped functioning or their winding had long been ignored. (Photographic evidence suggests that the Rutgers Street clock face read 10:15 from the 1930s through the 1970s.)

Today the church's facade, at nearly two centuries old, looks incredibly similar to what it would have looked like when built in 1842.