Church of the Good Shepherd

4967 Broadway | Inwood | built 1936

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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. 1911

    The Paulist Fathers found the Good Shepherd parish for Inwood's Irish

    The Paulist Fathers established the Roman Catholic parish of the Good Shepherd in 1911, and its first church was built around 1912. Mostly Irish American at its founding, the parish became known as "the unofficial capital of the Irish diaspora." Its congregation now includes many Dominican Americans, and it is staffed by Capuchin friars.

    Source: Wikipedia

  2. 1924

    The parish opens a parochial school on Cooper Street

    In 1924, the Church of the Good Shepherd builds a two-story parochial school at 110-116 Cooper Street, designed by architect Auguste L. Noel at a cost of $250,000. The school serves the growing Irish Catholic community that the Paulist Fathers had organized into a parish in Inwood in 1911.

    Source: Wikipedia

  3. 1935

    September 3

    Möller agrees to move the parish's organ into the new Broadway church

    Factory specifications dated September 3, 1935 show that the M. P. Möller company of Hagerstown agreed to take apart the organ from the parish's first church, a two-manual instrument built in 1916. It would be reconditioned at the factory and set up again in the new building on Broadway. Möller also provided a new two-manual console and a new chest for the old front pipes, with completion due by September 1, 1936.

    Source: nycago.org

  4. 1936

    Paul Monaghan's Romanesque Revival church rises on Broadway

    The present brick church at Broadway and Isham Street, designed by Paul Monaghan in the Romanesque Revival style, was built in 1935–36 for $300,000. A Celtic cross at the top marks the parish's Irish roots. In the churchyard stands a twisted cross-shaped piece of World Trade Center steel, a memorial to the September 11 attacks.

    Source: Wikipedia

  5. 1950

    The parish builds a five-story convent on Isham Street

    In 1950, the parish completes a five-story brick convent at 620 Isham Street for its Sisters, designed by architect Paul C. Reilly at a cost of $300,000. The convent rounds out the parish complex built up around the 1936 church on Broadway.

    Source: Wikipedia

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