Church of the Holy Innocents
279 East 17th Street | also 270 Beverley Road | Flatbush | built 1922
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- 1922
Skinner builds Opus 390 organ for Holy Innocents
The Ernest M. Skinner Organ Company of Boston built the church's organ in 1922, listed as its Opus 390, with three manuals and 33 stops. The Peragallo Pipe Organ Company of Paterson, New Jersey, rebuilt it in 2005.
“The organ at Holy Innocents Church was built in 1922 by the Ernest M. Skinner Organ Company of Boston, Massachusetts as their Opus 390…”
Source: Wikipedia
- 1923
The Late Gothic Revival church of granite and limestone is built on East 17th Street
Holy Innocents dates to 1923 and is a Late Gothic Revival church faced in granite with limestone trim. It has a tall clerestoried nave, transepts, a chancel and a tall bell tower. A rectory was added in 1923 and a school in 1914 is attached.
“The church was built in 1923 in the Late Gothic Revival style. It is built of granite with limestone trim.”
Source: Wikipedia
- 2008
Holy Innocents is the Diocese of Brooklyn's first National Register church
In September 2008 the Brooklyn Paper described the church, designed by the Pittsburgh architects Helme and Corbett, as the first in the Diocese of Brooklyn's 150-year history to be included on the National Register. It had served German, Italian and Irish families first, and by then drew Haitian Creole, West Indian and other Caribbean parishioners. Monsignor Rollin Darbouze said about a thousand people came on a good Sunday.
Source: brooklynpaper.com
- 2008
Parish plans an $800,000 copper roof repair and mural restoration
In 2008 the parish listed repairs to the church, led by an $800,000 restoration of its rare copper roof, which Cresci said had to be historically accurate. Planned work also included restoring the wall murals, with Carolyn Tomkiewicz of the Brooklyn Museum and University of Delaware students, and re-leading cracked stained glass. The parish also hoped to build a $9 million community center at 286 East 17th Street.
Source: brooklynpaper.com
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