New Church Structures next to Old

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

In this segment of Around New York, Robert C. Weinberg discusses new church buildings that compliment the primary historic structure. He highlights an addition to the First Presbyterian Church on Fifth Avenue and 12th Street by architect Edgar Tafel. He asserts that this building is successful because, "it in no way attempts to ape the old, neo-Gothic nineteenth-century eclecticism, nor to denigrate it by using a blatant modern style."


Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection


WNYC archives id: 150057
Municipal archives id: T1938 

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