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New York
Architecture Images-Harlem and the Heights Mount Morris Ascension Presbyterian Church |
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Thomas H. Poole |
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16-20 Mount Morris Park West, southwest corner of West 122nd Street |
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1905-06 |
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eclectic romanesque |
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clad in rough granite with vertical bands of gold Roman brick. |
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Church |
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| Designed in 1905-06 by Thomas H. Poole, this edifice began its existence as Mount Morris Presbyterian Church. It was renamed Harlem-New York Presbyterian Church in 1915 after a merger, and finally became the Mount Morris Ascension Presbyterian Church. This last incarnation resulted when the remaining white congregation decamped in 1942, finding themselves outnumbered by the black parishioners. Andrew Dolkart, architectural historian, remarks that this is "Unquestionably one of the oddest church buildings in New York, ... clad in rough granite with vertical bands of gold Roman brick." (Historic Harlem, page 41) | |
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| With special thanks to www.nyc.gov | |
