28 Attorney Street
also 440 Grand Street | Lower East Side | built 1920
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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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- 1833
Bishop DuBois dedicates the Greek Revival St. Mary's Church on Grand Street
St. Mary's Catholic parish bought land at Grand and Ridge Streets for $9,000 in November 1831, after its first church, a converted Sheriff Street building, was set on fire and destroyed. Bishop John DuBois dedicated the new church on June 9, 1833. It was built like a Greek temple, with four brownstone Doric columns, and a parish school opened almost immediately.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1871
Patrick Keely remakes St. Mary's with a Romanesque Revival front and twin steeples
A $93,000 enlargement began in July 1870 and was dedicated on February 26, 1871. Irish-born architect Patrick C. Keely, who worked almost entirely for the Catholic Church, stripped off the Greek Revival facade of the 1833 church and put up a red brick and brownstone front with two square towers. He also extended the fieldstone sides toward the rear and added a stained glass dome inside.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1919
Rev. James Byrnes of St. Mary's condemns slurs against the Jewish Lower East Side
By the early 20th century the Irish parish stood in a mostly Jewish neighborhood, and Daytonian in Manhattan reports that the two groups coexisted peacefully. In February 1919 the Rev. James M. Byrnes rebuked people who made insulting remarks about the East Side's Jewish residents without knowing the area. He reminded them that Jewish sons had gone overseas in the war by the hundreds and that their families had bought Liberty bonds.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
Further reading
- St. Mary's R. C. Church -- No. 438 Grand StreetDaytonian in Manhattan
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