Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe

229 West 14th Street | Chelsea | built 1920

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

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1902
Augustinian priests found the city's first Spanish-speaking Catholic parish
The Augustinians of the Assumption established Our Lady of Guadalupe in 1902, under the Rev. Stephen Chaboud, as New York's first Spanish-speaking Catholic parish. It served working-class Spaniards in an area of 14th Street then known as Little Spain. The church occupies a converted mid-19th-century brownstone rowhouse.
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1921
Architect Gustave Steinback gives the church a Spanish Baroque facade
The Spanish Baroque facade was built in 1921 to designs by Gustave E. Steinback over a former brownstone rowhouse. Converting the house created a double-height sanctuary with a side chapel, a small balcony and clerestory windows. The AIA Guide to New York City calls it an extraordinary brownstone conversion.
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2003
The parish merges with St. Bernard's and the church building is converted to other uses
In 2003 the Parish of Our Lady of Guadalupe merged with St. Bernard Parish at 328 West 14th Street, and the church's functions moved to St. Bernard Church. The building was converted to other uses. It had served Spaniards, Puerto Ricans, Mexicans and other Latin Americans.
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