Civil, political, professional and ecclesiastical history, and commercial and industrial record of the County of Kings and the City of Brooklyn, N. Y., Part 89

Author: Stiles, Henry Reed, 1832-1909.
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: New York : Munsell
Number of Pages: 1360

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On April 24, 186.), the corner-stone of a new stone church was laid by the Rev. Bishop of the Diocese, Horatio Potter, D.D., LL.D. On the third Sunday in October, the old brick building was temporary abandoned, and, on Christmas day, 1865, the main body of the new church was opened for ser- vice; the unfinished choir and chancel being partitioned off. On the fifth Sunday after Trinity, being the 6th day of July, 1866, all things being at length in readiness, and the screen re- moved, the entire structure was formally opened for worship and service of Almighty God. The Rt. Rev. Bishop Quintard, of Tennessee, officiated and preached.

The contract price for the new church was $23,000, the total amount expended for furniture and building was $31,- 500, and the architect was Mr. P. C. Keeley, of Brooklyn. The edifice is of blue gneiss stone, in the early English style, with lateral porches, and buttresses of stone. The interior is exquisitely polychromed, at a cost of $1,700, and is a work of the choicest decorative art. The altar and font are of white Caen stone, beautifully carved; and the organ was built by

Johnson, of Westfield, Mass. The seating capacity is from 650 to 700, there being 154 pews.

Rev. Ferris Tripp was associated with Mr. Jessup as Assist- ant Minister, from 1869 to 1872. Mr. Jessup was buried from the church on the 3d of May, 1872; and in October, 1872, a mural tablet was placed in the church, to his memory. Rev. Wm. A. Leonard was his successor; and he entered on his duties May 5, 1872.

In the summer of 1874, the old brick building, being the original church built in 1855, was torn down; and a new stone chapel and bell-tower erected, at a cost of $15,000, in- cluding furniture and a fine chapel organ. This building seats 500. It has also a beautiful study for the Rector, a vestry and a music room. There are five memorial windows of stained glass placed in its walls; and it opens into the church proper by glass doors. The present income from the pew rental of the parish is $8,000, which more than meets all current expenses.

The Parish Working organizations are the following : In- dustrial School for Girls; Mission School for Boys; Mothers' Meetings; Parish Guild, for all ladies of the parish; Benevo- lent Association, an organization which receives, on the first Sunday of the winter months, money pledged for assist- ing the worthy poor.

The Rev. Wm. A. Leonard resigned the rectorship in Feb- ruary, 1881, and the Rev. Geo. Williamson Smith, S. T. D., officiated as Rector, Sept. 1, 1881, to July 1, 1883; and Rev. Charles R. Treat, from Sept. 1, 1883, to the present time. Rev. Ferris Tripp is Assistant Minister. The church has (July, 1883) 625 communicants and 528 Sunday-school scholars.

The Brotherhood of the Church of the Redeemer maintains a library and free-reading room, on Atlantic avenue, between 4th and 5th avenues; and assists the Rector in Parish work.

Day Nursery, 500 Warren st. Owing to the removal of the Sister in charge, on account of ill health, the Day Nursery suspended operations in November, 1881, until a suitable per- son can be obtained to take charge of it.

A summary of items for the past 28 years gives the follow- ing result : Baptisms, 960; Confirmations, 636; Marriages, 252; Burials, 572. As near as can be calculated, the money raised in the Parish for all purposes, amounts to $200,000.

The Church of the Messiah, Greene ave., cor. Clermont, was org. August 22d, 1850, under the rectorship of the Rev. William H. Newman, with twenty communicants.

Rev. Robert J. Walker was Rector, from June, 1851, till June, 1858; Rev. Octavius Perinchief, 1858-'59; Rev. George E. Thrall, 1859-'69: Rev. Richard B. Duane, D.D., 1869-'72; Rev. Charles R. Baker, 1873-'84.

The first edifice was erected in 1852, and was enlarged in 1859, at a total expense of more than $8,000. In 1863, the edifice being found too small for the congregation, the vestry purchased a large, unfinished brick structure, upon the corner of Greene and Clermont avenues, originally erected for the Presbyterians, and capable of seating a thou- sand persons. The sum paid was $25,000, and the comple- tion of the edifice cost $64,000 additional. It has a seating .capacity of 1,120. In 1878, all indebtedness was extinguished. The Church of the Messiah has (July, 1883) 790 communicants, and 280 Sunday-school scholars.

Rev. CHARLES R. BAKER, born in Medford, Mass., 1842; grad. Friedrich Wilhelm Univ., Berlin, and Epis. Theol. School, Cambridge, 1872; located Brooklyn, 1873-'84.

Emmanuel Church originated in Ascension Church, in 1853. Rev. William O. Lamson, Rector. The corner stone of a building was laid at the corner of Third place and Smith st., in 1853, the congregation worshiping in a hall at the corner of Court and Sackett sts, On November 27, 1864, the organi-

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zation was changed to the Free Church of the Good Angels, and the Rev. John II. Hobart Brown was elected Rector. In 1857, the church was organized under its prescut name, and occupies an elegant Gothic structure of brown stone on the corner of Smith and President sts., seating 700, and costing over $30,000.

Rectors : Rev. Wm. O. Lamson, 1853-'7; Rev. Edward De Zeng. 1857-'60: Rev. Thos. Powell, with Rev. Edmund Em- bury as associate, 1860-'1; Rev. Henry Greenleaf, D. D., who died in 1862; Rev. Henry B. Wallbridge, D. D., 1869-'84.

In 1870, the church was enlarged by the addition of tran- septs. In 1874, an addition was made in front, and in 1878, a recess chancel was added in the rear. The scating capacity is now about 950.

In 1874, pew rents were abolished, and the seats have since continued free. Rev. Geo. F. Cushman, D. D., is Assistant Minister.

Emmanuel Church has (July, 1883) 241 communicants and 214 Sunday-school scholars. It has also a Parish school.

The Church of Our Saviour, as a mission chapel from Christ Church, held its first service, Nov. 22, 1857, in a car- penter's shop on Nelson st., west of Court, with five mem- bers. Rev. James S. Barnes was appointed minister, and served till 1865; a Sunday-school was started, which soon increased to 150 scholars. After a few months, some of the members of Christ Church, seeing the importance of the work, opened a subscription list, which, with generous help from the parent church, soon amounted to $14,000. The lot at the corner of Clinton and Luqueer streets was given by Mrs. Luquecr, and the present building was soon erected, with seats to be forever free.

Rev. Wmn. M. Postlethwaite was the next Minister in charge, and, during his term of over four years, the chapel became an independent church. Rev. Mr. Booth succeeded as Rector, and was in charge for over eight years. The pres- ent Minister, Rev. H. M. Stuart, took charge in May, 1880. The Church of Our Saviour is (July, 1883) without a Rector ; has 260 communicants and 400 Sunday-school scholars.

St. Andrew's Church, New York ave., corner of Herkimer st., commenced services in a temporary building, under the pastoral care of Rev. Richard S. Adams, who subsequently became Rector. The corner-stone of the church edifice was laid March 23, 1859, and the parish organized in the fol- lowing September. In March, 1869, Rev. Charles Higbec be- came Rector. The parish has since ceased to exist.

St. Matthew's Protestant Episcopal Church, Throop ave., corner Pulaski st., was org. as the "Free Church of St. Matthew," May 25, 1859. Services had occasionally been held in a school-room on the south-west corner of De Kalb and Marcy aves .; and a Sunday-school had been organized, with some 25 children, under the supervision of Mr. Bailey J. Hathaway. It was not, however, until the spring of 1859 that services were regularly conducted, and then by Rev. D. V. M. Johnson, D. D., Rector of St. Mary's Church, in the house of Mr. Frank Chichester, on Lafayette ave., near Tompkins. Soon after, a church organization was perfected. On the 7th of June, 1859, Mr. J. J. Rapelye gave four lots. together 100 feet square, on the south-east corner of Throop ave. and Pulaski st., as a building site for a new church. The corner-stone was laid July 2, 1859, and on Feb. 10, 1861, the completed edifice was opened for worship. Its cost was about $10,000. The Rectors in charge were : Rev. Isaac Ful- lerton Cox, 1860; Rev. James Thomson, 1861-'8; Rev. C. S. Williams, 1868-76; Rev. Charles Wmn. Turner, 1876-'81. A flourishing Sunday-school of 309 members is maintained. Its first superintendent was Rev. J. Hoyt Smith, who was sue- ceeded by Alex. Hutchins, M. D., the present superintendent.

In May, 1868, the free system was abandoned, and the pews were rented. In consequence, the name of the parish was changed to St. Matthew's Protestant Episcopal Church; and has (July, 1883) 175 communicants and 292 Sunday-school scholars.

Rev. CHAS. WILLIAM TURNER, born in London, Eng., 1844; grad. St. Mark's Coll., Lond., 1864; located at Anglican Mis- sion, Hawaii, 1866; San Francisco, 1869; Oakland, 1871; L. I. City, 1874; Brooklyn, 1876.

Church of the Atonement, 5th ave., cor. 17th st., was in- corp. Feb. 1st, 1864. A churchi edifice was erected on the corner of 5th ave. and 17th st., and opened Sept. 7th, 1865. Rev. Joseph D. Phillip was at first in pastoral charge. Sub- scquent Rectors: Rev. Lea Lnquecr, 1865-'66; Rev. E. F. Remington. 1866-'68; Rev. William Hyde, 1868-'76; Rev. James Chrystal, 1876-'77; Rev. Alfred J. Barrow, 1877-'79; Rev. Wm. M. Willian, 1879-'81; and Rev. Albert C. Bunn, M. D., 1881-'84.

In 1878, the interior of the church was altered and re- arranged. The Church of the Atonement has (July, 1883) 345 communicants, and 330 Sunday-school scholars.

Rev. ALBERT C. BUNN, M. D., born 1845, at Cape Vincent, N. Y .; grad. Hobart Coll. and Med. Dept. Univ. of Buffalo; five years Med. Missionary of Amer. P. E. Mission at Wal- chang, China. Studied theol. with Rev. Geo. Williamson Smith, S. T. D., Pres. Trinity Coll .; ordained 1SS2; Pastor at Queens, L. I .; located at Brooklyn, September, 1881.

The Church of the Reformation was founded by Rev. Darius Brewer, an independent missionary, who held re- ligious services Dec. 2, 1866, in a small upper hall, at the corner of Classon and Fulton aves .; and, on the 18th of Feb- ruary following, a church was organized, with Rev. Mr. Brewer as Pastor. In 1874, Mr. Brewer was succeeded by the present Rector, Rev. J. Bacchus.

In April, 1867, lots on Gates ave., near Classon, were purchased at a cost of $8,280; and by July 14th, the church edifice was so far completed that services were held in it. It was a wooden structure, 40 by 80 feet, and finished in every respect in a most tasteful and thorough manner, at a cost, exclusive of site, of $8,964.11.

During the past eight years the church building has been improved by the addition of two transepts, two parlors, and a robing-room, and the enlargement of the chancel and lecture-room. A rectory, adjoining the church, has also been purchased.

The Church of the Reformation has (July, 1883) 420 coni- municants, and 364 Sunday-school scholars.

All Saints' Church, worshiping in Military Hall, 5th ave., near 9th street, was organized Aug. 4th, 1867; and, until the following Christmas Day, carried on by lay effort. At that time the Rev. Wm. D'Orville Doty, began his labors. Seven lots of land, at the corner of 7th avc. and 7th st. were pur- chased of Isaac Henderson, Esq. The corner-stone of a chapel was laid by Bishop Littlejohn, May 30th, 1869. It was a brick structure, 35 by 30 fcet, with 368 sittings.

This chapel was enlarged in 1880; its seating capacity in- creased to 450, and the interior wholly changed. Mr. Doty was succeeded in the rectorship in 1871, by Rev. Joseph S. Jenckes, Jr .; and he, in 1872, by Rev. Charles H. Bixby. The present Rector, Rev. Melville Boyd, succeeded Mr. Bixby in June, 1876. During the rectorship of Mr. Boyd the church debt has been nearly extinguished.

All Saints' Church has (July, 1883) 325 communicants and 350 Sunday-school scholars.

St. James' Church, Lafayette ave., corner of St. James place. This parish was originated by some members of St. Luke's congregation, living in its more immediate vicinity,

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and was organized on the 25th of May, 1868, and admitted into union with convention on the 29th of September, 1869. The present Rector, Rev. Charles W. Homer, previously As- sistant Minister of St. Luke's, was called to the rectorship on the 29th of May, 1868.

A handsome chapel was erected, and twice enlarged, dur- ing the year 1868. It was also twice enlarged between 1870 and 1875, and it has now a seating capacity of 1,200. St. James' Church has (July, 1883) 751 communicants and 767 Sunday-school scholars.

St. Stephens' Church was first a mission of St. Andrews, formed, in August, 1867, for the greater convenience of resi- dents in the eastern part of St. Andrew's parish. The parish of St. Stephens was erected in 1868, with a promise on the part of its officers that they would " oppose the erection of a church west of Rochester avenue."

A church edifice was built in 1868, and opened for worship Feb. 21, 1869, on the corner of Patchen avenue and Jefferson street. It is a wooden structure, with 300 sittings, which, from the first, have been free. The expenses of the church have been defrayed from weekly voluntary offerings.

Rev. William Schouler, Jr., became Rector in May, 1868 ; Rev. James A. Bradin, in June, 1872 ; Rev. Joseph A. Nock, in February, 1875; and the present Rector, Rev. Thos. J. Cor- nell, M. D., in April, 1881. St. Stephens' Church has (July, 1883) 120 communicants and 170 Sunday-school scholars.

St. George's Church was organized October 24th, 1869. The church edifice is of wood, 40 by 80 feet, and located on Greene avenue, betw. Marcy and Tompkins avenues, fronting on Tompkins Park, and its cost, with the site, was $27,000. The church owes its existence largely to the labors of Rev. Alvah Guion (deceased), who was its first Rector. He was succeeded by Rev. Charles H. Babcock, who was fol- lowed by the present Rector, Rev. Frederick B. Carter. The church maintains a Ladies' Parish Aid and Missionary So- ciety, an Industrial School, St. George's Brotherhood, a Parish Missionary Committee, and an association called "Friends of the Sick." St. George's Church has (July, 1883) 290 communicants and 343 Sunday-school scholars.

Rev. FREDERICK B. CARTER, born in Brooklyn, 1850; studied Col. Coll. ; grad. Gen. Theol. Sem., 1873 ; located W. Islip, L. I., 1873-'75; Brooklyn, 1875-'84.

The Church of the Good Shepherd was first a mission of the Church of the Holy Trinity. It was organized as a sep- arate parish in 1870. The present church edifice, on McDonough st., near Stuyvesant ave., was erected in 1871, with a seating capacity of 300. In 1874, it was enlarged, and transepts were added, and it has now 600 sittings. The total cost of the building and site was about $24,000. The parish is very prosperous. Rev. Henry Betts Cornwall, D. D .. has been Rector since 1871. The Church of the Good Shepherd has (July, 1883) 325 communicants and 238 Sunday-school scholars.

The Chapel of the Church Charity Foundation, under the charge of Rev. Thos. W. Brown, Chaplain, has (July, 1883) 80 communicants and 76 Sunday-school scholars.

Church of the Mediator .- A few friends of Rev. Wm. H. Reid rented the Juvenile Academy in Washington street, transformed it into a church, which was opened in April, 1869, and org. with E. S. Blomfield and Chas. Selden, Church Wardens. It afterwards occupied the old St. Ann's Church building, which has since been taken down to make way for the East River Bridge. In 1873, the congregation purchased from the Central Congregational Society, for $30,000, their church edifice on the corner of Ormond place and Jefferson st. In May, 1875, services were discontinued, and the property was transferred to the former owners. In

November of the same year the building was rented, and services were resumed. In May, 1876, they were again dis- continued, and were not resumed till February, 1880, when the present Rector, Rev. J. W. Sparks, was called. In No- vember, 1881, the building was again purchased from the Central Congregational Society, for $15,000. It is a brick structure, with a seating capacity of 800.

Rev. William H. Reid became Rector at the organization of the Society, and resigned in February, 1874. In March of the same year, Rev. L. Van Bokkelen was called, but within a month left the parish in an embarrassed condition. In July, 1874, Rev. T. F. Cornell, M. D., was called. He re- signed in May, 1875, and was succeeded in the following Oc- tober by T. Stafford Drowne, D. D. He resigned in May, 1876, and the church was closed till February, 1880. The present condition of the parish is prosperous.

St. Mark's P. E. Church, 4th st., cor. South 5th, the old- est Episcopal parish in Williamsburgh, was org. 1837, with four communicants, by Rev. Wm. Morris, afterwards Rector of Trinity school, N. Y. At Easter, 1838, Rev. Samuel C. Davis succeeded, the communicants then numbering twelve; and during his ministry, a brick chapel was erected at the rear of the present church edifice.

In October, 1839, there being then 18 communicants, and a Sunday-school of 30 scholars and 6 teachers, the Rev. Sam- uel M. Haskins became the Rector; and, by May, 1841, a stone church, 45 by 90 feet, was completed and consecrated. It is in the Tudor Gothic style, and seats 550 people. The con- gregation steadily increased with the growth of the city. In 1846, it colonized Christ Church, and the Rector of St. Mark's inaugurated (with help from Trinity Church, New York) missionary efforts at Williamsburgh, and at Maspeth, resulting finally in the establishment of a church at the lat- ter place, under care of Rev. Wm. Walsh; and at Williams- burgh, in 1848, of St. Paul's, under the rectorship of Rev. Geo. W. Fash.

In 1846, also, Dr. Haskins organized St. James' (colored) congregation, which was aided by St. Mark's congregation, until they could do for themselves. Ascension Church, Greenpoint, in 1847; Calvary Church, in 1848, were all es- tablished by Dr. Haskins' labors and the aid of Trinity Church; the debt of his own church cancelled, and its size and adornment greatly increased in 1854. Communicants (July, 1883), 452; Sunday-school numbered 308.

Rev. SAMUEL M. HASKINS, D. D., was born at Water- ford, Oxford county, Maine, on the 29th of May, 1813. He graduated at Union College in 1836, and at the General Episcopal Theological Seminary, New York, in 1839. He was ordained deacon in the Episcopal Church in June, 1839, and priest at the chapel of St. Mark's, Williamsburgh, in July, 1840, by Bishop Onderdonk. He was called to the rectorship of St. Mark's in October, 1839, and has held his high office there for forty-four years. This church, which was nursed into strength and usefulness by the patient, earnest efforts of Dr. Haskins, has enjoyed the ad- vantage of his care and love throughout its whole interesting history. It is the parent of all the other Episcopal Churches in this section of Brooklyn, which now number six flourishing parishes.

St. Mark's Church was organized as a missionary enterprise by the Rev. Mr. Davis, in October, 1837, on

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the outskirts of what was then the village of Williams- burgh. He was the first Rector, but left the parish in May or June, 1839. When Dr. Haskins was called, services were held in a small white-washed briek build- ing, in the midst of a cornfield. His first sermon was preached on the twenty-first Sunday after Trinity, 1839, to a congregation of fourteen families and eighteen communicants. There was no other parish between Astoria and Brooklyn; yet the population was small, and sparse fields and orchards covering a large portion of the present populous city. The steady in- crease of the congregation made a larger church neces- sary. Three lots were obtained on the corner of Fourth and South Fifth streets, and a stone building erected, all at a cost of nearly seventeen thonsand dollars-a large sum for a feeble congregation in those days-leaving a debt of six thousand.

In May, 1841, the church was consecrated. The congregation steadily increased, until in 1846, a new organization, under the name of Christ Church, was formed and entirely made up of families from St. Mark's.

A series of missionary services, commenced by Dr. Haskins in the same year, in the eastern portion of the

town, resulted in the organization of St. Paul's Church, which was received into the convention in 1848. These were followed by others, until six parishes now attest the zeal and liberality of the mother church, and the faithful labors of Dr. Haskins. The original debt was paid in 1853; at the same date the church was enlarged by the addition of a proper chancel and choir, and an increase to the nave of about two hundred sittings. It was also beautified by several memorial windows. A Sunday-school room was added in 1855.

In 1860, further important additions were made to the church, and other memorial windows added. The site of the church is now in the older portion of the city, and with its plain substantial exterior, and the im- provements made in the interior, it has a very neat and tasteful appearance, and looks as should the venerable cradle of so many rich and powerful parishes. Six ministers, now preaching from Christian pulpits, were originally connected with the Sunday-school. In forty- four years the church has been closed bnt two Sundays, and during the same time, Dr. Haskins has seldom been absent, except for his summer vacation of four or five Sundays.

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Dr. Haskins received his degree of D. D. from Union College in 1862. His publications consist of a num- ber of occasional sernions. He is of the average height, and well proportioned, and walks with an erect figure and an active step. His head is large, with a face of marked intellectuality and amiability; the features are large, but regular; the face shows decision and force of character; there is a kindness in the eye and a good-natured smile about the mouth, which arc expressive of gentle and noble traits of character. His manners are those of the true gentleman, tender, considerate and kind, that always win the heart. With cheerfulness and smiles, kind words and genial actions, he has thus made himself popular, not only among his own people, but in social and public life generally. He is well described in those words in which Cowper por- trays the model preacher.

" In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste, And natural in gesture; much impress'd Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men."

Seeing him in the pulpit, the living impersonation of this portrait is brought vividly before you. His clear, positive faith in the doctrines he proclaims, and his equally clear and positive language; his unpretend- ing, circumspect and solemn manner; his ease and grace of delivery and gesture; his evident sense of the obligations of his position; his tender appeals to the unconverted; his affectionate looking from face to face of those who are his sheep, all appear in most striking reality. He is not looking for popular ap- plause, but he is anxious to do his whole duty as a preacher of the glad tidings of salvation.

He is not seeking to exalt himself and his talents; but he is pleading with his whole mind and heart to save those in guilt and peril. He is eloquent; his words flow with fluency and beauty; he is strong in argument, and inspired with faith; but none of this is intended to awaken an emotion personal to himself. His language, tone and manners will not allow you to escape from a knowledge of this fact, and it gives great additional power and effectiveness to his preach- ing.

In this day of worldly ambition and of selfishness in the pulpit, as well as out of it, you can but be drawn nearer to the man who shows himself entirely free from them, and thoroughly devoted, with humility and seriousness of spirit, to the work of the Master.

Dr. Haskins has labored, from early manhood to the decline of life, in one parish. In that time he has seen a great city grow up about him, with the manifold changes and trials it has brought to his parish. He has seen the little seed of his nursing and watering

grow into the tall tree of religious power, and he has seen its goodly boughs severed one after another, until the ancient trunk is all that remains. Venerable with age, hoary, but not decayed, it still stands where it was first planted in the vineyard of the Lord, and its faithful husbandman will guard it until he, too, falls to liis rest beneath its holy shade.

Christ Church, E. D .- This parish, originally organized as "Christ Church, Williamsburgh," in the summer of 1846, maintained services for nearly a year in the Reformed Dutch consistory room, Fourth st. In September, 1846, Rev. Chas. Reynolds accepted a unanimous call to the parish, which at that time numbered only thirteen communicants. Within four months, a small but neat edifice was erected on the south-east corner of South Sixth and Fifth sts. This proved too small for the congregation, and an eligible plot of ground on Bedford ave., a few rods outside of the Williams- burgh limits, being proffered to the vestry by Messrs. Jacob and B. B. Boerum, in the spring of 1844, the parish of Christ Church, Williamsburgh, was dissolved, and at the same meeting, that of Christ Church, North Brooklyn, organized. The corner-stone of a church edifice was laid on Ascension Day, 1849, and the edifice opened for divine service in the following September. A subsequent enlargement was made in the summer of 1851, at which time the number of com- municants was ninety, and the Sabbath-school, under the superintendency of Samuel Reynolds, in a very flourishing condition. Mr. Reynolds' ministry here closed, May 6, 1855, and on the following Sabbath, Rev. A. H. Partridge assumed the rectorship. He found the congregation occupying a poor building, and about $6,000 in debt. Through his exer- tions the debt was paid, and a commodious chapel erected on the rear of the lot at a cost of about $7,500, with a capa- city of seating 350 to 400 persons. The old building was then taken down and sold; and, by the first of January, 1863, a new and elegant brown-stone church, in the geomet- rical decorated Gothic style, was erected and occupied by the congregation. This edifice, which is 125 feet long by 75 feet wide, with two towers in front, will seat 1,200 persons ; with stained-glass windows, organ, and of elegant internal finish and decoration. It cost $35,000, and is an ornament to the city.

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Civil, political, professional and ecclesiastical history, and commercial and industrial record of the County of Kings and the City of Brooklyn, N. Y., Part 89

Author: Stiles, Henry Reed, 1832-1909. Publication date: 1884 Publisher: New York : Munsell Number of Pages: 1360

Author: Stiles, Henry Reed, 1832-1909.
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: New York : Munsell
Number of Pages: 1360