St. Mark the Evangelist Church
65 West 138th Street | Harlem | built 1910
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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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- 1907
St. Mark the Evangelist parish is established as a Black Catholic parish in Harlem
St. Mark the Evangelist was established in 1907 as a Black Catholic parish in the Archdiocese of New York, and the Holy Ghost Fathers have staffed it since 1912. The parish says it was the first Catholic church in Harlem to take in Black newcomers from the American South and the Caribbean.
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- 1914
Architect Nicholas Serracino builds the brick parish church for $12,000
Fr. Charles J. Plunkett, the parish's first pastor, commissioned a brick church in 1914, designed by architect Nicholas Serracino. The project cost $12,000.
Source: Wikipedia
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