St. John's Lutheran Church Parsonage

79 Christopher Street | West Village | built 1868

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

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1868
St. John's Lutheran congregation builds a parsonage at 79 Christopher Street, where Rev. Held lives
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In 1868 the congregation of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church put up a parsonage next to its church at 79 Christopher Street, designed by John M. Foster. Its founding pastor, Rev. A. H. M. Held, made his home there and led the congregation until poor health forced him to retire in 1879, when Rev. Dr. Augustus C. Wedekind took his place.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1937
December 5
Pastor Fridolin Oberlander dies in the St. John's parsonage after years of preaching mostly in German
Rev. Dr. Fridolin Emil Oberlander, pastor of St. John's Lutheran Church since 1914, died in the parsonage at 79 Christopher Street on December 5, 1937, after an illness of almost two months. Though in his seventies and fighting blindness, he had kept preaching each week, mostly in German. Nine months earlier he had used a sermon to urge his congregation to avoid the prejudice then prevalent abroad.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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