Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary

381 East 150th Street | also 364 East 151st Street | Melrose | built 1943

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

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1853
The Immaculate Conception parish is established
The Roman Catholic parish of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary was established in 1853. It belongs to the Archdiocese of New York and is staffed by the Redemptorist Fathers, and its church stands on 150th Street at Melrose Avenue.
“The parish was established in 1853. It is staffed by the Redemptorist Fathers.”
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1887
Henry Bruns's Romanesque Revival church rises with the Bronx's tallest steeple
The present brick church, designed by Henry Bruns in the Romanesque Revival style, was completed in 1887, and its steeple is the highest in the Bronx. It was built when Germans were the largest ethnic group in the Bronx, and a school hall designed by Anthony F. A. Schmitt followed in 1901.
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