Manhattan Seventh-Day Adventist Church
232 West 11th Street | West Village | built 1881
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1880
North Baptist Church buys three brick houses on West 11th Street to build a new church
The North Baptist Church, formed in 1826 and worshiping on Christopher Street since 1828, bought three brick-faced houses at 232 to 236 West 11th Street. It gave Chester H. Simmons $20,500 for a pair of them and Elias A. Day $7,406 for the third, and held a week-long bazaar that winter to raise money for the new building.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1881
Laurence B. Valk lays out a Queen Anne church for North Baptist, a daring choice for a house of worship
Architect Laurence B. Valk chose the Queen Anne style instead of Gothic Revival. The cornerstone was laid on September 28, 1881, and the church was consecrated on June 25, 1882, at a cost of $77,239.50. Its asymmetrical front had two arched entrances with tile-filled tympana, a bell tower and pyramidal caps.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1897
North Baptist Church merges with the Macdougal Street Baptist Church
In 1897 the congregation joined the Macdougal Street Baptist Church, which dated to 1809. The combined flock worshiped together for the first time on April 18, when The New York Times said the sanctuary was crowded. The merged body kept the North Baptist Church name, and Rev. G. M. Schott stayed on as pastor.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1899
Pastor G. M. Schott uses his farewell sermon to scold the congregation
On February 26, 1899, Rev. Schott preached his last sermon at North Baptist. He admitted that his work there had not succeeded, then criticized members sharply for how he had been treated and urged them to be kinder to his successor, according to The New York Times.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1913
New pastor John Gunn opens with a sermon titled "How to Get a Husband and Keep Him"
Rev. John Gunn, a young Georgian, began work in May 1913 and chose a first sermon on getting and keeping a husband. He told an Evening World reporter that the sex problem in New York was harder than in the West or South, and partly blamed the cost of living for low marriage rates among the young.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1915
Pastor Madison C. Peters preaches that the mob against Leo Frank was really against Jews
On May 23, 1915, Dr. Madison C. Peters spoke from the pulpit about Leo M. Frank, the Jewish man convicted in Georgia of murdering Mary Phagan. He argued that the crowd's outcry targeted Jews rather than Frank himself. Frank was kidnapped from prison and lynched that August after the governor commuted his sentence.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1936
City Temple Seventh-Day Adventists buy the church and strip its towers and tilework
According to a New York Times report of November 26, 1936, the City Temple Seventh Day Adventists Church had purchased the building and intended to alter it extensively. The work removed the polychrome tiles over the entrances and the towers and rooftop ornament of Valk's design. The congregation still worships here as the Manhattan Seventh-Day Adventist Church.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
Further reading
- The North Baptist Church (Manhattan 7th Day Adventist)--232-236 W. 11th StreetDaytonian in Manhattan
- Then & Now photos: North Baptist ChurchVillage Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now
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