Evangeline Residence for Girls
120 West 14th Street | also 123 West 13th Street | West Village | built 1930
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- 1895
The Salvation Army opens a fortress-like Romanesque headquarters on this site
The Salvation Army held a two-day opening ceremony for its first West 14th Street building on June 4, 1895, making it the organization's headquarters in the United States. Ballington Booth had planned it in memory of his mother Catherine Booth, and Gilbert A. Schellenger designed it in the Romanesque Revival style, with a central tower flanked by turrets that evoked a fortification. The whole project cost $350,000, of which the building itself was $150,000. This earlier building was later replaced by the present headquarters.
Source: Wikipedia
- 1896
Ballington and Maud Booth leave the Salvation Army over a mortgage dispute and found Volunteers of America
In early 1896 Ballington Booth and his wife Maud split from the Salvation Army after a dispute over whether to mortgage the new headquarters to raise money for overseas work. They formed a rival group, God's American Volunteers, later called Volunteers of America. In May 1896 Ballington turned the building over to his sister Emma and her husband Frederick, the Booth-Tuckers.
“Ballington and Maud Booth split from the Salvation Army in early 1896 after a dispute over whether the Booths should mortgage the headquarters…”
Source: Wikipedia
- 1918
A fire destroys the Salvation Army's training school next to its headquarters, killing two people
In February 1918 the training school next to the headquarters, a three-story building at 126-128 West 14th Street, burned down and two people died. The Salvation Army soon rehired architect William S. Barker to rebuild it as a four-story building, which opened in February 1919 as the Red Shield Club for Service Men. That building burned down again in March 1925 and was razed the next year.
Source: Wikipedia
- 1928
Construction begins on the Salvation Army's Markle Evangeline dormitory
Ground is broken on October 16, 1928, for a women's dormitory known as the John and Mary Markle Memorial Home, funded by a gift from philanthropist John Markle. It is part of a replacement headquarters complex for the Salvation Army. Voorhees, Gmelin & Walker design the seventeen-story Art Deco building in brick and stone.
Source: Wikipedia
- 1930
John Philip Sousa attends the Centennial Memorial Temple's opening and writes a march for it
Ground was broken in 1929 and the new meeting hall was finished in May 1930, dedicated as the Centennial Memorial Temple to mark 100 years since the births of William and Catherine Booth. All of the Salvation Army's American commissioners came to the opening, as did John Philip Sousa, who composed a piece for the occasion titled "The Salvation Army March." The ceremony took place as the worldwide Army faced a leadership crisis and the Great Depression had begun.
Source: magazine.saconnects.org
- 1930
The Evangeline residence for working women is dedicated
The Salvation Army dedicates its women's dormitory on West 13th Street, the Markle Evangeline, on June 14, 1930, about a month after the headquarters auditorium and office building on 14th Street open. The dormitory is one of the last women's residences in Manhattan by the early 21st century.
Source: Wikipedia
- 1981
The Salvation Army announces it will move its national headquarters to New Jersey
In 1981 the Salvation Army announces that it will relocate its national headquarters, including its publications services at 132-136 West 14th Street, to Verona, New Jersey. Its Eastern Division headquarters follows by moving to Nyack, New York, in September 1990. The Markle Evangeline dormitory stays in use as a residence.
Source: Wikipedia
- 1990
The Salvation Army's Eastern Territory leaves West 14th Street for West Nyack
In 1990 the Salvation Army's USA Eastern Territory left 120 West 14th Street for West Nyack, New York, eight years after national headquarters moved to Verona, New Jersey. The Salvation Army's own magazine says the Greater New York Division now has the building to itself.
Source: magazine.saconnects.org
- 2017
The Landmarks Preservation Commission designates the Salvation Army's 14th Street headquarters
On October 17, 2017, the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted unanimously to make the Salvation Army National and Territorial Headquarters at 120-130 West 14th Street an individual landmark. The designation covers the Art Deco office building and auditorium, which opened in May 1930 as the main feature of the Golden Jubilee National Congress, held to mark 50 years of the Army's work in the United States. The 17-story dormitory behind them was left out because it was already in the Greenwich Village Historic District. The office wing still houses the Greater New York Division and a social services center.
Source: home4.nyc.gov
Further reading
- Salvation Army Headquarters (Manhattan)Wikipedia
- Then & Now photos: Evangeline Residence for GirlsVillage Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now
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