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New York
Architecture Images-Harlem and the Heights
Bethelite Community Baptist Church |
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architect |
Lamb & Rich |
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location |
34 West 123rd Street |
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date |
1888-89 |
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style |
Queen Anne |
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construction |
red brick and terra cotta |
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Club |
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| Another of the Boulevard's noteworthy examples of the Queen Anne style is the present-day Bethelite Community Baptist Church. This red brick and terra cotta building with "Richardsonian Romanesque" details was designed by Lamb & Rich in 1888-89 for the Harlem Club, a group of influential Protestant families living in the neighboring new row houses. Due to dissension among the members, the club disbanded and a bank foreclosure in 1907 ended the affiliation. It has been used as a church since 1947. Architectural historian Andrew Dolkart writes, "The roof line of the Lenox Avenue frontage is especially fine with its central gable flanked by tall chimneys, and two spectacular hooded dormers clad in Spanish tile." ("Historic Harlem," page 38) | |
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| With special thanks to www.nyc.gov | |
