First Presbyterian Church
124 Henry Street | also 118 Henry Street | Brooklyn Heights | built 1846
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- 1822
The First Presbyterian congregation is founded as merchants move to Brooklyn Heights
The congregation was founded as affluent merchants began moving to Brooklyn Heights from Manhattan. Its original church stood on Cranberry Street. When the congregation needed more room it moved to its present site on Henry Street, and Plymouth Church bought the old Cranberry Street lot.
“The congregation was founded in 1822, at a time when affluent merchants were beginning to move to the neighborhood from Manhattan.”
Source: Wikipedia
- 1846
William B. Olmstead completes a Gothic Revival church on Henry Street with a crenellated tower
The church was designed by William B. Olmstead and built in 1846. Its dominant feature is a 90-foot tower with battlements and pointed-arch windows, and many of the stained glass windows came from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Studios. A memorial doorway designed by James Gamble Rogers was added in 1921.
“…built in 1846 and was designed by William B. Olmstead in the Gothic Revival style. The church's memorial doorway was added in 1921 and was designed by James Gamble Rogers.”
Source: Wikipedia
- 1949
The congregation starts a Heights Fellowship for ecumenism and racial harmony under Philip Elliot
The congregation began the Heights Fellowship in 1949, a program meant to encourage ecumenism, racial harmony and internationalism. It ran until 1952 under the leadership of Philip Elliot, whose tenure spanned 1931 to 1961. Paul Smith promoted the same program again at the end of the 1980s.
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Further reading
- First Presbyterian Church (Brooklyn)Wikipedia
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