St. Elizabeth of Hungary Church

213 East 83rd Street | also 215 East 83rd Street | Yorkville | built 1917

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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.

  1. 1863

    Reverend C.J. Renz founds a German Lutheran congregation in Yorkville

    The Reverend C. J. Renz founded Immanuel German Evangelical Lutheran Church in Yorkville in 1863. The congregation first met in the old Yorkville Court House and later built a modest church on this site at 213-215 East 83rd Street. By 1889 only 13 members remained, but Renz returned at the congregation's request and membership rebounded within two years.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1894

    Henry Erhardt's neo-Gothic church replaces the original building

    As membership grew again, the old church was demolished in 1892 and architect Henry F. Erhardt planned a larger replacement, with its cornerstone laid on February 12, 1893. The buff brick neo-Gothic church, finished late in 1894, has copper-covered spires and a central mansard and holds 800 worshipers. Extra work ordered during construction doubled the contractor's bill, and he won a lawsuit against the church in January 1895.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1917

    The Lutheran church is resold to the Slovak Catholic parish of St. Elizabeth of Hungary

    In June 1917 Ernest N. Adler bought the German Lutheran church and resold it within the week to the Slovak Catholic Church of St. Elizabeth of Hungary. After extensive alterations, including a painted ceiling of stars and angels, Cardinal Patrick Hayes rededicated the building on November 18, 1928.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1980

    Cardinal Cooke names St. Elizabeth of Hungary the church for deaf Catholics

    On July 1, 1980 Cardinal Terence Cooke redesignated St. Elizabeth of Hungary as the church for New York's deaf Catholics. The archdiocese announced in 2014 that the parish would merge into the Church of St. Monica, and decreed the church closed on June 30, 2017.

    Source: Wikipedia

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