Church of St. John Nepomucene
411 East 66th Street | also 1224 1st Avenue | Lenox Hill | built 1924
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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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- 1895
Slovak Catholics hold the first mass of the parish of St. John Nepomucene
Slovak Catholics on the Lower East Side formed the Society of St. Matthew in 1891 to seek a parish of their own. With Archbishop Michael Corrigan's approval, the first mass of St. John Nepomucene parish was held on East 4th Street on October 25, 1895. The parish took its name from the Bohemian priest John of Nepomuk and went through fifteen priests in its first thirteen years before moving uptown.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1925
John Van Pelt designs a Romanesque church for the Yorkville parish
Architect John Vredenburgh Van Pelt designed the church, school and rectory group on East 66th Street near First Avenue, completed in 1925 at a cost of $300,000. He drew on the Romanesque architecture of Moissac Abbey in France for the red brick and limestone church, which has carved reliefs and a rose window. A mosaic triptych over the altar shows scenes from the lives of Saints Cyril and Methodius and of St. John.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
Further reading
- Church of St. John NepomuceneWikipedia
- The 1925 Church of St. John Nepomucene -- No. 411 East 66th St.Daytonian in Manhattan
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