St. Barnabas Church

409 East 241st Street | also 413 East 241st Street | Woodlawn | built 1930

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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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  1. 1910

    July

    Father Michael A. Reilly founds St. Barnabas parish in Woodlawn Heights

    Michael A. Reilly, a New York City native ordained in 1898, created St. Barnabas parish in July 1910, carving it out of the Bronx parish of St. Frances of Rome. As its first pastor until his death in 1947, he oversaw construction of the church, schools, convent and rectory, and was made a monsignor as the parish grew into one of the largest in the archdiocese.

    Source: Wikipedia

  2. 1911

    November

    Cardinal John M. Farley dedicates the new St. Barnabas Church

    The parish's Italianate church went up in 1911 and was dedicated that November by Cardinal John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York. It held 700 worshippers when it opened. By 1914 the parish counted about 1,000 members, and its property was valued at $100,000 against a debt of $59,500.

    Source: Wikipedia

  3. 1911

    St. Barnabas opens its parish school with 200 pupils and seven Sisters of Charity

    A temporary parish school opened in 1911 with 200 students, taught by seven nuns of the Sisters of Charity of New York, who at first traveled every day from their motherhouse in Riverdale. The elementary school, now at 413 East 241st Street, runs from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade, and in the 1980s it enrolled more than 1,500 children.

    “A temporary school was opened in 1911, with 200 students, staffed by seven Sisters of Charity of New York.”

    Source: Wikipedia

  4. 2009

    Peragallo Pipe Organ Company installs the church's current organ

    In 2009 the Peragallo Pipe Organ Company of Paterson, New Jersey, put in the organ the church uses today, at least its fourth. The first, by the Estey Organ Company of Vermont, arrived around 1911; an 1890 instrument by George S. Hutchings of Boston followed around 1948, and Jaeckel Organs of Duluth installed another in 1985.

    “The Peragallo Pipe Organ Company of Paterson, New Jersey installed the present organ in 2009.”

    Source: Wikipedia

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