St. Jean Baptiste Catholic Church
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north profile and east elevation; in the background left is The Siena, built using air rights bought from the church (2014)
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| Basic information | |
| Location | 1067-71 Lexington Avenue (184 East 76th Street) Manhattan, New York City |
| Affiliation | Roman Catholic |
| Rite | Latin Rite |
| District | Archdiocese of New York |
| Country | United States of America |
| Year consecrated | 1912 |
| Leadership | The Rev. John Kamas, S.S.S. |
| Website | The Church of St. Jean Baptiste, New York City |
| Architectural description | |
| Architect(s) | Nicholas Serracino |
| Architectural style | Italian Renaissance Revival, Classical Revival, Italian Mannerism |
| Groundbreaking | 1910 |
| Completed | 1913 |
| Construction cost | $600,000 |
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| Direction of façade | west |
| Capacity | 1,200 |
| Dome(s) | 1 |
| Dome height (outer) | 175 feet (53 m) |
| Spire(s) | 2 |
| Spire height | 150 feet (46 m) |
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| Coordinates | 40°46′21″N 73°57′36″W / 40.77250°N 73.96000°WCoordinates: 40°46′21″N 73°57′36″W / 40.77250°N 73.96000°W |
| NRHP reference # | 80002720 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | April 23, 1980 |
| Designated NYCL | November 19, 1969 |
St. Jean Baptiste Roman Catholic Church, also known as the Église St-Jean-Baptiste, is a parish church in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York at the corner of Lexington Avenue and East 76th Street in the Lenox Hill neighborhood of the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. The parish was established in 1882 to serve the area's French Canadian immigrant population and remained the French-Canadian National Parish until 1957. It has been staffed by the Fathers of the Blessed Sacrament since 1900.
Financier Thomas Fortune Ryan, a Catholic convert in his teens, bankrolled its construction. It was designed by Nicholas Serracino, an Italian architect practicing in New York, who, inspired by the Italian Mannerists, combined elements of the Italian Renaissance Revival and Classical Revival architectural styles, Seracino won first prize for the design at the Esposizione Internazionale delle Industrie e del Lavoro in Turin, Italy in 1911. It is his only surviving church in the city.
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