Mount Morris Ascension Presbyterian Church

15 Mount Morris Park West | also 15 Mt Morris Park West | Harlem | built 1906

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

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1906
Thomas H. Poole designs an eclectic church with a copper dome
Architect Thomas H. Poole gives the new Harlem Presbyterian Church building a Romanesque design influenced by Moorish precedents, with alternating brick-and-stone voussoirs, granite and gold Roman brick walls, and a neo-Classical copper-clad dome. The cornerstone is laid on October 1, 1905, and the roughly $100,000 building is dedicated the following year.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1915
The Harlem Presbyterian congregation merges with a Manhattan church
The congregation that built the Mount Morris Park West church, organized as Harlem Presbyterian Church in 1844, merges with New York Presbyterian Church to form Harlem-New York Presbyterian Church. It consolidates again in 1942 with Rutgers Presbyterian Church, ending its original congregation's independent life after nearly a century.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1943
Mount Morris Ascension Presbyterian Church opens for a Black congregation
Rev. Arthur Eugene Adair opens Mount Morris Ascension Presbyterian Church in the building, establishing a congregation serving Harlem's Black community. The church adds a day-care program through its Community Life Center in 1944 and, in 1965, a Head Start branch offering early childhood education to neighborhood families.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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