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New York
Architecture Images-Upper East Side Central Presbyterian Church |
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Park Avenue and East 64th Street |
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1920 |
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Neo-Gothic. Art Deco |
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limestone |
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Church |
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Special thanks
to www.churchcrawler.co.uk
(British and international church architecture site) for generous
permission to use images and info. |
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the oddest buildings, a church with seemingly a hall and appartments above. Arts and Crafts style, and a tower that recalls St Germain l'Auxerrois in Paris. The building dates from 1920, and was built for the Baptists by John D Rockefeller. It became the Central Presbyterian Church when the congregation purchased it in 1929 from the Baptist church , who moved out to the much larger structure on Riverside Drive. The interior is simple and peaceful. Vaulted and divided into a hall church with very slim arcades, its most striking feature are the tall paired two-light windows on the north side, repeated as blank windows on the south, except in the wider transeptal extension. In the transept and over the west end are galleries. Six-light west window, the east window a grouping of 1-2-1 light stepped windows. |
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http://www.centralonpark.org/ |
