Church of the Sacred Heart

75 West 168th Street | Highbridge | built 1950

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

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1875
Father James Mullen starts Sacred Heart parish in a secondhand Manhattan church
Rev. James A. Mullen, an assistant at St. Augustine's, was assigned in 1875 to organize a new Highbridge parish carved out of St. Augustine's territory. Hearing that St. Rose of Lima on Cannon Street in lower Manhattan was replacing its church, he asked for the old wooden building, had it sawn into sections, shipped to the Bronx and put back together as a temporary church. The parish was still using frame buildings on this Shakespeare Avenue block when plans for the present church were filed in 1910; Mullen led the largely rural parish until he died on December 21, 1907.
“The small frame building was cut into sections, transported to the Bronx and reassembled to serve as a temporary church.”
Source: Wikipedia
1910
Architect Elliott Lynch files plans for a brick church to replace Sacred Heart's frame buildings
In 1910 plans went in for a brick church and rectory on Shakespeare Avenue between 168th and 169th Streets, replacing the parish's wooden church and rectory. Elliott Lynch, an architect of other Catholic churches and parish schools as well, put the total cost at $590,000. The cornerstone was laid that same year, and the new church was finished in April 1912; a stained glass window inside honors seven parishioners killed in World War I.
Source: Wikipedia

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