St. Anthony's Church

1496 Commonwealth Avenue | also 1492 Commonwealth Avenue | Soundview | built 1931

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

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1908
Rev. Henry De Vivo founds St. Anthony's as a parish for Italians
The parish began in 1908 as an Italian personal parish organized by the Rev. Henry De Vivo, soon after the IRT elevated line reached this developing part of the Bronx. It is often called St. Anthony, Van Nest, to set it apart from St. Anthony of Padua's Church in Morrisania.
“It was established in 1908 as a personal parish for Italians by the Rev. Henry De Vivo.”
Source: Wikipedia
1910
July 3
Archbishop Farley dedicates the brick church designed by a parishioner
The church at 1496 Commonwealth Avenue was finished in 1909 for $75,000, a Roman-style brick building seating 500. Its architect, a Mr. Sarrocino, belonged to the parish. Archbishop Farley dedicated it on July 3, 1910.
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1913
Pastor Pasquale Maltese trims the parish debt to $63,000
The Rev. Pasquale Maltese took over from De Vivo in March 1912 and served until 1936. In 1913 the parish recorded 149 baptisms, 29 marriages, 237 confirmations and 12,000 communions, with 300 children in Sunday school, and Maltese had cut its debt from $70,000 to $63,000.
“That year the pastor, Rev. Pasquale Maltese, had reduced the parish debt of $70,000 to $63,000.”
Source: Wikipedia

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