Church of St. Clement Mary Hofbauer

406 West 40th Street | Hell's Kitchen | built 1900

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

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1909
Cardinal Farley authorizes a Polish parish on the West Side
Cardinal John Farley, Archbishop of New York, authorizes a new parish in 1909 to serve newly arrived Polish residents of Manhattan's West Side. It is placed under Clement Mary Hofbauer, a saint canonized earlier that year. The first Mass is held in a candy store on November 14, and later services take place in a rented Lutheran church.
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1910
Fred Schwartz's four-story parish building opens on West 40th Street
Fred Schwartz, an architect from Paterson, New Jersey, designs a Gothic Revival parish building on West 40th Street at Tenth Avenue. The church seats 750 on the first floor, with a parish school above it run by the Sisters of the Resurrection. In its early years the congregation numbers about 3,000 people.
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1984
Metro Baptist Church takes over the former Catholic church
As the neighborhood becomes more affluent in the mid-20th century, the congregation of St. Clement Mary Hofbauer dwindles, and the archdiocese closes the parish by 1970. Metro Baptist Church, which belongs to the Alliance of Baptists and the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, has occupied the building since 1984.
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