St. Nicholas of Myra Church

157 Avenue A | also 288 East 10th Street, 155 Avenue A | East Village | built 1883

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
Rutherfurd Stuyvesant builds a memorial chapel for his late wife
Rutherfurd Stuyvesant commissioned architect James Renwick Jr., working with W. H. Russell, to design a chapel for St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery after his wife, Mary Rutherford Pierrepont, died on New Year's Eve 1879 while pregnant. The $200,000 building mixed Gothic Revival, Romanesque and Queen Anne details in red-orange brick and terra cotta, seating 350 worshippers with room for 100 more in its gallery.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1897
Rector J. H. Rylance modernizes the chapel's ministry
Rev. Dr. J. H. Rylance became rector of the chapel in 1897 and closed its two-floor parochial school, judging it redundant with the public schools. He introduced a "pleasant Sunday hour" of music and readings, along with mothers' meetings, boys' and girls' clubs, a day nursery and a savings fund, and had the chapel repainted and fitted with a new heating system.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1909
The chapel passes from Episcopal to Slovak Lutheran, then Russian Orthodox hands
The Holy Trinity Slovak Lutheran Church took over the building from St. Mark's Episcopal mission in 1909. The American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese began renting it for its St. Nicholas of Myra congregation in 1925 and bought the property outright in 1937, the denomination that still worships there.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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