Covenant Lutheran Church
60-52 Catalpa Avenue | Ridgewood | built 1915
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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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- 1911
The Lutheran Church of the Covenant buys this corner lot and builds a chapel
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The Covenant Lutheran congregation was founded in 1909 and first worshipped in a store at Forest Avenue and 69th Avenue. In 1911 it bought this corner lot, where Catalpa Avenue meets 60th Lane, and built a chapel on it before the year was out, which served until the present church and parsonage replaced it in 1914-15.
- 1914
Carl L. Otto designs a brick Gothic Revival church for the Covenant Lutheran congregation
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The church was built in 1914-15 to designs by architect Carl L. Otto in the Gothic Revival style, together with a parsonage for the congregation. Its brick walls are laid in English cross bond, and it has a square corner tower, buttresses, label moldings, a Gothic-arched window and a decorative brick cross in the gable.
“The Gothic Revival style Lutheran Church and Parsonage of the Covenant at 60-52 Catalpa Avenue was built in 1914-15 from designs made by architect Carl L. Otto.”
- 1991
The United Presbyterian Church of Ridgewood forms and later comes to share this church
In 1991 the St. James Presbyterian Church of Ridgewood merged with the First Presbyterian Church of Ridgewood, once the First German Presbyterian Church of East Williamsburgh, to form the United Presbyterian Church of Ridgewood. That congregation later sold its own building on 60th Place and now worships in this church alongside the Covenant Lutherans. A sign for the United Presbyterian Church hangs on the building next to the older Covenant Lutheran sign box.
“…sold its church building on 60th Place and now occupies this church building along with the Covenant Lutheran congregation.”
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