Church of the Annunciation

88 Convent Avenue | also 80 Convent Avenue | Manhattanville | built 1953

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

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1852
October
Archbishop John Hughes establishes the Annunciation parish
Archbishop John Hughes founds the parish, with Rev. Arthur J. Donnelly as its first pastor. The congregation first meets in a donated colonial-style house. The house also holds classrooms and sleeping quarters for students of the Academy of the Holy Infancy, forerunner of Manhattan College.
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1907
December 15
Archbishop Farley dedicates a new Gothic-Renaissance church
Designed by Lynch and Orchard, the new limestone church is begun with a cornerstone at West 131st Street and Convent Avenue in September 1906, after the largely Irish congregation outgrows its old church. Archbishop John Farley dedicates it, and it seats 700. The old church's stained glass windows, brass altar rail, and baptismal font move into the new building.
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1977
The Piarist Fathers assume pastoral care of the parish
In 1977 the Church of the Annunciation is placed under the pastoral guidance of the Piarist Fathers, a Catholic religious order. It remains a parish of the Archdiocese of New York at 88 Convent Avenue.
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