St. Bartholomew's Church
1234 Atlantic Avenue | also 1227 Pacific Street, 1222 Atlantic Avenue | Crown Heights | built 1890
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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.
- 1884
St. Luke's buys the old Bedford Congregational Church building for its chapel
A chapel congregation set up by St. Luke's Church of Clinton Hill in 1881 began meeting in the former Bedford Congregational Church building that stood where St. Bartholomew's is today. St. Luke's bought that earlier building in 1884, and work on the main part of the present church was finished in 1886.
- 1887
The chapel incorporates as St. Bartholomew's and takes over the property from St. Luke's
The chapel was incorporated as St. Bartholomew's Church on March 22, 1887, and joined the Protestant Episcopal Convention that same month. In May, St. Luke's sold it the land and buildings under a covenant forbidding the sale or rental of pews, since St. Luke's wanted its daughter church to stay free to all worshipers. The experiment apparently failed, and the two churches revoked the covenant in 1892.
- 1890
George P. Chappell completes a picturesque Romanesque Revival church on Pacific Street
Brooklyn architect George P. Chappell finished the church in 1890, adding the chancel and vestry as two gabled sections set at right angles to the nave. It has a red granite base with red brick above, a wide gable holding a large round-arched stained glass window, and a massive square belfry tower. The Landmarks Preservation Commission called it one of the finest Romanesque Revival buildings in the city.
- 1911
The church building is formally consecrated
St. Bartholomew's Church was formally consecrated on December 3, 1911, more than two decades after Chappell's design was completed. A nearby rectory looks to be Chappell's work as well, likely from around the time the church was finished.
“The church building was formally consecrated on December 3, 1911.”
- 1974
The Landmarks Preservation Commission designates St. Bartholomew's a landmark
The city designated the church a landmark on March 19, 1974, after a September 1973 hearing at which no one testified. The rector and vestry had told the commission they supported the designation of their building. The landmark site covers Block 1200, Lot 16, on the north side of Pacific Street.
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