Monthly Archives: April 2013

Originally built for Congregation Mt Sinai Anshe Emeth, this building is now home to four different congregations. It was constructed in 1958-59 by Murphy & Horowitz, a partnership which may have been short lived as the firm was listed as … Continue reading →

Here is another Edgar Tafel-designed religious structure, this one from 1969. Some of Tafel’s work, especially later buildings present an extreme modesty, almost utilitarianism, perhaps reflecting his work with low-income congregations or his interest in contextualism. The Emmanuel Presbyterian Church … Continue reading →

The DeWitt Reformed Church is sited on the corner of Columbia Street and Rivington Street, where Rivington dead-ends in the Baruch Houses public housing complex. It was built in 1956-57. According to the church’s website, when neighboring tenement structures came … Continue reading →

Following up on our previous post, here is another building that demonstrates Voorhees Walker Foley and Smith’s later stripped-down modern style in brick. The Church of Saint Emeric on 13th Street between Avenues C and D, dates from 1949. Its … Continue reading →

This building, on First Avenue just above 14th Street, was originally a Union Square Savings Bank. It had been vacant for several months and was recently refurbished into a Duane Reade drugstore. Duane Reade made minimal changes to the exterior, … Continue reading →

The Inwood Branch Library on upper Broadway dates from 1948. The building is unassuming enough that one walks right by it with little notice. The architects, Tachau and Vought, did more of their work in the 1920s and 30s, especially for … Continue reading →

What looks like a public library is actually now a synagogue. Continuing our trend of examining the lesser known buildings of the Lincoln Square Redevelopment Project, this is the former Riverside Branch of the New York Public Library. It was … Continue reading →