Church of the Blessed Sacrament
147 West 70th Street | also 152 West 71st Street | Lincoln Square | built 1900
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- 1914
Parish commissions young architect Gustave Steinback to replace its outgrown church
By 1914 apartment buildings were replacing rowhouses along the Upper West Side's avenues, and the Roman Catholic parish of Blessed Sacrament, whose church had opened in 1888, found the building too small for its growing congregation. The commission for a larger replacement went to Gustave E. Steinback, who was still a young architect at the time.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1920
First mass is celebrated in the new Blessed Sacrament church on Christmas 1920
Work on the present church, designed by Gustave E. Steinback, began in 1914. Its first mass was held on Christmas 1920. It stands on West 71st Street just east of Broadway and serves a parish that was established in 1887.
Source: Wikipedia
- 1920
The $600,000 Gothic church is finished, inspired by Paris's Sainte-Chapelle
Finished late in 1920 at a cost of $600,000, Steinback's church draws on 13th-century French Gothic, particularly Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, and is dominated by a huge rose window above the main door. Inside, the finish was chosen to soak up sound and avoid echo, and Clement Heaton's stained-glass windows stood out, with the trade journal Architecture and Building admiring the soft light they let in.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1928
Broadway notables fill the church for the funeral of George M. Cohan's mother
On August 29, 1928, Blessed Sacrament was packed with figures from the Broadway stage for the funeral of Mrs. Jere Cohan, the mother of George M. Cohan. The church drew a wide variety of parishioners, and this service shows it.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1930
Jurists attend a requiem mass for former Supreme Justice William P. Burr in heavy rain
A high requiem mass for William P. Burr, a former Supreme Justice, was celebrated at Blessed Sacrament on November 16, 1930. More than 300 mourners attended, many of them well-known jurists, and they gathered during a downpour of rain, two years after the church had filled for the Cohan funeral.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
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