West End Collegiate Church

368 West End Avenue | also 245 West 77th Street, 360 West End Avenue | Upper West Side | built 1892

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1892
November 20
Robert Gibson designs West End Collegiate Church in Dutch style
Architect Robert W. Gibson modeled the church on the 1606 Vleeshal in Haarlem, the Netherlands, using long, thin brown brick and buff terra-cotta trim. Built for the Collegiate Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, it was dedicated on November 20, 1892. The Reverend Henry Evertson Cobb had been called as its first minister the day before.
Source: Wikipedia
1967
West End Collegiate Church becomes a New York City landmark
The city designated West End Collegiate Church an individual landmark in 1967; it was later added to the National and New York State Registers of Historic Places in 1980.
Source: Wikipedia
2006
The Collegiate School is asked to leave its schoolhouse beside the church
The adjoining Collegiate School had leased its schoolhouse from West End Collegiate Church since the complex was completed in 1892. In 2006 the church asked for the space back and turned down the school's offer to buy it. The school planned a new campus on Riverside Boulevard, with a move-in expected in summer 2017.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
2024
January
A Latter-day Saints congregation shares the church during renovations
In January 2024, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints signed a lease to share West End Collegiate Church's facility while its own Manhattan temple underwent remodeling.
Source: Wikipedia

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