Former Grace Chapel

406 East 14th Street | East Village | built 1920

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

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1896
Barney & Chapman design the mission chapel at 406 East 14th Street
Built between 1894 and 1896 in a Gothic Eclectic style, the stone and Roman-brick building at 406 East 14th Street serves as Grace Chapel, a mission. Architects Barney & Chapman give it a freestanding tower at the center, a steeply gabled church section facing the street with a small round chapel attached, and two peaked-roof wings three and a half stories tall. The mission closes in 1943.
Source: buildingblocks.villagepreservation.org
1945
Eggers & Higgins design a convent and school at 413 East 13th Street
In 1945, architects Eggers & Higgins design a four-story brick convent and school at 413 East 13th Street, on the same lot as the chapel at 406 East 14th Street. The plain facade has simple window frames, crosses at the top of the side bays, and an inscription above the first floor. Brickwork projects outward at the first and second stories.
Source: buildingblocks.villagepreservation.org
2008
A wash fountain on the church facade is inscribed with an Old Testament verse
Set into the facade of the Gothic-style church on East 14th Street, a water fountain and wash bowl carries the words "Ho, every one that thirsteth," taken from the Old Testament. The fountain has fish-shaped spouts. When Ephemeral New York photographed it in 2008, it no longer seemed to work and its basin was filled with trash.
Source: Ephemeral New York

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