Church of the Resurrection

119 East 74th Street | Upper East Side | built 1924

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1869
June 13
James Renwick's Church of the Holy Sepulchre is dedicated
Architect James Renwick Jr. designs a Gothic Revival church for a two-year-old free Episcopal parish at 119 East 74th Street. Bishop Potter lays the cornerstone on November 16, 1868, and the fieldstone building, seating five to six hundred worshippers, is dedicated as the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on June 13, 1869.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1903
The threatened parish renames itself the Church of the Resurrection
Facing the possibility of demolition around 1903, the parish changes its name from Church of the Holy Sepulchre to Church of the Resurrection, a name it keeps afterward. Standing on the less fashionable side of Fourth Avenue, later renamed Park Avenue, the modest church has already earned the nickname "the servants' church."
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1920
The congregation adopts Anglo-Catholic worship
In 1920, the congregation of the Church of the Resurrection formally adopts Anglo-Catholic worship and doctrine, a tradition within Anglicanism that emphasizes ritual and sacrament.
Source: Wikipedia
1957
February 3
The church is consecrated debt-free after 91 years
On February 3, 1957, Bishop Donegan consecrates the Church of the Resurrection now that it is debt-free, ninety-one years after the parish's 1866 founding. The congregation had begun as a free church, charging no pew fees to worshippers in the neighborhood east of Fourth Avenue.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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