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St. Elias Greek Rite Catholic Church /formerly Reformed Dutch Church of Greenpoint

architect

Church, 1869-1870. William B.Ditmars. Sunday school, 1879. W. Wheeler Smith.

location

149 Kent St., bet. Manhattan Ave. and Franklin St. N side.

date

1869-1870

style

High Victorian Gothic  

type

Church

 

 

images

 

Image: special thanks to Jolanta Zastocki.

notes

Bulky brick, brownstone, and whitestone, with the Victorian Gothic polychromy (note the alternating red and gray voussoirs) promoted by writer-architectural historian John Ruskin and hence termed Ruskinian Gothic. Note the cast-iron fence with its Gothic crests, and the octagonal Sunday school.  

 

 

contact

nyc-architecture.com

  with thanks to "The AIA Guide to New York",