Our Lady of Victory Church

599 Throop Avenue | Bedford-Stuyvesant | built 1920

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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.

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  1. 1868

    The Our Lady of Victory parish is organized, drawing largely Irish immigrants

    The Landmarks Preservation Commission's Stuyvesant Heights report says the Our Lady of Victory parish dates to 1868, shortly after the Civil War, and had its first church built that same year. Most of the first parishioners were Irish immigrants who had come to find work and schooling for their children. The parish opened its first school in 1872.

    “The parish was organized in 1868, just after the Civil War, and its first church was built the same year.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1895

    October 25

    Our Lady of Victory Church is dedicated after Monsignor James Woods sees it through the panic of 1893

    Construction of the church began in 1891, and it was dedicated on October 25, 1895. Monsignor James Woods, whose pastorate was a long one, planned the present complex and managed to finish the church despite the financial panic of 1893. The other buildings of the complex were added in the early twentieth century.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1895

    Thomas F. Houghton's Gothic church of dark gray ashlar has a rose window with a six-pointed star

    Thomas F. Houghton designed the church in a Gothic Eclectic style, using dark gray random ashlar with light stone trim and a steep gabled roof over the nave. A stone portal with a Gothic arch dominates the entire western front, with a rose window above whose six-pointed star draws on Old Testament symbolism. A tower with a small conical-roofed turret marks the MacDonough Street side.

    “…was designed by the same architect. Building was begun in 1891 and dedicated on October 25, 1895. Constructed of dark gray random ashlar…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  4. 2011

    Our Lady of Victory merges with Holy Rosary and St. Peter Claver to form St. Martin de Porres parish

    Construction of the church began in 1891, and it was dedicated on October 25, 1895. Monsignor James Woods, whose pastorate was a long one, planned the present complex and managed to finish the church despite the financial panic of 1893. The other buildings of the complex were added in the early twentieth century.

    Source: Wikipedia

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