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GPT-021-StAnthony.jpg (36999 bytes) New York Architecture Images-  Greenpoint Brooklyn

St. Anthony of Padua Church (Roman Catholic)

architect

Patrick C.Keely.

location

862 Manhattan Ave., at the end of Milton St. E side. 

date

1875

style

Gothic

type

Church

 

images

 

Image: special thanks to Jolanta Zastocki.

notes

Attired in red brick and white limestone, a quasi-cathedral on this religious block offers fancy dress to this dour neighborhood. Its 240-foot spire, at a bend in Manhattan Avenue, is a visual pivot not only for Milton Street and Manhattan Avenue but for all of Greenpoint.  

 

 

contact

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