St. Paul's Episcopal Church

421 Clinton Street | also 423 Clinton Street | Carroll Gardens | 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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1849
December 25
The parish that later builds this church on Clinton Street is founded on Christmas Day
St. Paul's Episcopal Church of Brooklyn was founded on Christmas Day 1849 in South Brooklyn, then the fast-growing area south of Brooklyn Heights, where new houses and businesses were covering farmland and shoreline. The parish later built its church at Clinton and Carroll streets.
“St. Paul's was founded on Christmas Day of 1849, in South Brooklyn, then the quickly developing southward expansion of old Brooklyn Heights.”
Source: Wikipedia
1867
Richard Upjohn & Son's High Victorian Gothic church is built between 1867 and 1884
The church at 423 Clinton Street, at Carroll Street, went up between 1867 and 1884. Richard Upjohn & Son designed it in the High Victorian Gothic manner. The parish belongs to the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island and follows the Anglo-Catholic tradition.
“…was built from 1867 to 1884 and was designed by Richard Upjohn & Son in the High Victorian Gothic style.”
Source: Wikipedia
1989
The church is added to the National Register of Historic Places
In 1989 St. Paul's Episcopal Church of Brooklyn, the High Victorian Gothic church at Clinton and Carroll streets in Carroll Gardens, was added to the National Register of Historic Places. It dates from 1867 to 1884.
“It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.”
Source: Wikipedia

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