Eleventh Street Methodist Episcopal Chapel

545 East 11th Street | East Village | built 1868

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

  1. 1867

    October

    The Methodist Missionary Society builds a chapel for East Village immigrants

    William Field and Son designed the modernized Gothic chapel, funded partly by the $9,697.50 sale of the Dry Dock Mission building. Contractors James C. Hoe & Co. and G. F. Coddington broke ground after an October 1867 cornerstone-laying and finished within three months, with $9,000 more raised on dedication day and philanthropist Jack Black Cornell covering the remaining costs.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1901

    The chapel is renamed People's Home Church and Settlement

    After buying the adjacent tenement at 543 East 11th Street in 1899, the congregation redesigned its entrance in the Colonial Revival style and renamed itself People's Home Church and Settlement in 1901, expanding services with classes and social clubs for the neighborhood's German and Italian immigrant families.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1905

    The chapel opens a day nursery so mothers can work

    Within a year of opening, the chapel had added a Cornell Reading Room stocked with books, magazines and a zoetrope, and a Sunday school and lecture room followed in 1874. In 1905 it opened a day nursery, letting neighborhood mothers take jobs outside the home while their children were cared for on site.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1941

    A Russian Ukrainian Polish Pentecostal congregation buys the settlement house

    The settlement closed in 1930 as the Methodist mission wound down, and in 1941 the building was sold to a Russian Ukrainian Polish Pentecostal congregation. It was renamed the Evangelical Christian Church in 1983 and, after merging with Father's Heart Ministries in 1998, continues to run community programs including ESL classes and job training.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 2010

    September 14

    The city designates the former chapel and rectory a landmark

    The Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the chapel and its 1856 Greek Revival rectory a New York City landmark on September 14, 2010. The complex was added to the New York State and National Registers of Historic Places the following year.

    Source: Wikipedia

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