St. Peter's Chapel

346 West 20th Street | Chelsea | built 1832

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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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  1. 1832

    February 4

    St. Peter's Chapel is consecrated on land leased from Clement Clarke Moore

    Clement Clarke Moore, who had donated the land under the General Theological Seminary, leases seven nearby plots for a token seven cents a year so the fledgling St. Peter's congregation can build its own chapel. The Greek Revival building, its cornerstone laid October 8, 1831, is consecrated on February 4, 1832.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1838

    The chapel becomes the parish rectory

    When the congregation completes its new Gothic Revival church nearby in February 1838, the outgrown chapel building is converted into a rectory for St. Peter's clergy, with the renovation finished by 1841.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1843

    June 21

    An ordination interview at the rectory ignites a religious controversy

    Seminary graduate Arthur Carey, who had shown pro-Catholic sympathies, undergoes an ordination interview at the rectory on June 21, 1843, arranged by rector Hugh Smith. Bishop Benjamin Onderdonk's decision to approve him afterward draws public backlash and accusations of impropriety against the bishop.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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