Sheen Center
18 Bleecker Street | also 309 Elizabeth Street | NoHo | built 1927
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- 1926
The parish's new cultural center on Bleecker Street stages about six full-scale operas a year
By 1926 diocesan clergy and members of religious orders staffed the Italian mission of Our Lady of Loreto. The new school and cultural center on Bleecker Street included an auditorium with a professional stage. According to the Sheen Center's history, about six full-scale operas were presented there each year.
Source: sheencenter.org
- 1927
Our Lady of Loretto parish builds a school and rectory at 18-24 Bleecker Street
Architect Silvio A. Minoli designed the Colonial Revival school and rectory of the Church of Our Lady of Loretto, built in 1926-27, with a two-story gymnasium and auditorium wing. The parish dated from about 1890 and served the area's growing Italian immigrant community. Its church stood nearby at 303-305 Elizabeth Street, in two early-nineteenth-century row houses joined and converted in 1892, and was demolished in the late 1980s.
- 1938
Catholic Charities buys the building and opens the Holy Name Centre for homeless men
According to the Sheen Center's history, Catholic Charities bought 18 Bleecker Street in 1938, after the parish was forced to foreclose, and made it the Holy Name Centre for homeless men, with housing and job help. The theater stayed in use and held Golden Gloves tournaments in the 1950s and 1960s, and a small chapel inside held daily Mass. By the mid-1980s the old church on Elizabeth Street had fallen into disrepair and the parish moved into the chapel.
Source: sheencenter.org
- 2015
The Sheen Center opens as the Archdiocese of New York's arts center
The Holy Name Centre and the Our Lady of Loreto parish both closed in 2011. After a renovation the building opened in 2015 as the Sheen Center, the Archdiocese of New York's official arts center, named for Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. Its stated aim is a place where art and spirituality meet.
Source: sheencenter.org
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