Rectory of St. Mark's Church / Neighborhood Preservation Center

232 East 11th Street | East Village | built 1899

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Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1. 1900

   Ernest Flagg designs a rectory for St. Mark's on part of its old graveyard

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   Ernest Flagg designed the brick rectory at an estimated cost of $14,000, with a high metal roof, dormers and a porch facing the back of the church. The lot included part of St. Mark's graveyard; 16 feet 8 inches of frontage was bought from Samuel and Claudia Stone for $13,600 on November 24, 1899. The landmarks commission called it handsome in its 1969 report.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

2. 1924

   Poet Harry Kemp and his wife move into the rectory after leaving Greenwich Village

   The bohemian poet Harry Kemp lived here with his wife, Francis McClernan, in 1924, after leaving Greenwich Village, where he had lived since 1912. Village Preservation counts the couple among the first members of the bohemia that was starting to form in what was then still called the Lower East Side.

   Source: buildingblocks.villagepreservation.org

3. 1975

   A fisherman stands on the street out front on Foghat's album cover

   The cover of Foghat's 1975 album Fool for the City was shot on East 11th Street between Second and Third Avenues, right outside the rectory, with the back of St. Mark's Church in the picture and the man holding a fishing rod. Village Preservation, whose offices are in the building, learned of the connection only when a former staff member spotted the cover, as its August 2011 post recounts.

   Source: Village Preservation

4. 1988

   A fire damages the rectory; it reopens in 1999 as the Neighborhood Preservation Center

   A fire in 1988 damaged the rectory, which had mostly served as the rector's home. The exterior was restored by 1993, and interior work began in 1998 under the St. Mark's Historic Landmark Fund. The Neighborhood Preservation Center officially opened there on November 1, 1999, with Village Preservation, the Historic Districts Council and the Landmark Fund as resident partners.

   Source: Village Preservation

Further reading

• 232 East 11th StreetVillage Preservation: East Village Building Blocks

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