Rectory of St. Joseph's Church
371 Avenue of the Americas | West Village | built 1954
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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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- 1834
Father James Cummiskey, St. Joseph's first pastor, lives in a two-story house on this lot
James Cummiskey, the first pastor of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, bought two lots by the church in 1834 and 1835. His own home, a two-story house numbered 371 Sixth Avenue, stood on the far side of the church. That earlier house stood where the rectory was built in 1954. The lots he bought on Washington Place later became the site of the parish school.
- 1954
Robert J. Reiley & Associates design a four-story brick rectory beside St. Joseph's Church
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The rectory of St. Joseph's Church was designed in 1954 by the firm Robert J. Reiley & Associates and built next to the church on Sixth Avenue. It rises four stories in brick, with a rusticated stone basement and first floor. The 1969 landmarks report called it simple but handsome. It replaced the old two-story house of the church's first pastor.
Further reading
- Then & Now photos: The Rectory of St. Joseph's ChurchVillage Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now
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