South Congregational Church Complex
360 Court Street | also 358 Court Street | Carroll Gardens | built 1857
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- 1857
A Romanesque Revival church goes up beside the 1851 chapel at Court and President streets
The complex's chapel dates to 1851 and its church to 1857; the designers of both are unknown. The church is considered among the borough's finest early Romanesque Revival buildings. The site is believed to have been picked by the preacher and abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher, brother of the author Harriet Beecher Stowe.
“The chapel was built 1851 and the church in 1857. ... The location is believed to have been selected by the famous preacher and abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher…”
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- 1874
The Rev. Albert Josiah Lyman becomes pastor and stays 41 years
In 1874 the Rev. Dr. Albert Josiah Lyman took over as pastor of South Congregational Church. He held the post for 41 years.
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- 1893
Woodruff Leeming designs the rectory, the complex's fourth building
The rectory was built in 1893 to designs by the architect Woodruff Leeming. It followed the ladies parlor of 1889, designed by the English-American architect Frederick Charles Merry. Together with the 1851 chapel and the 1857 church, these four buildings make up the group later protected as a city landmark.
“The ladies parlor was built in 1889 to designs by English-American architect Frederick Charles Merry (d.1900) and the rectory building in 1893 to designs by architect Woodruff Leeming.”
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- 1982
The city designates the church complex a landmark, and the interior becomes apartments and offices
The Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the church, original chapel, ladies parlor and rectory a city landmark on March 23, 1982, and the complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places that November 4. In the 1980s the former Congregational and United Church of Christ buildings were converted inside to apartments and offices, an example of adaptive reuse.
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