St. Michael's Episcopal Church (Manhattan)
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St. Michael's Church
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| Location | 225 W. 99th St., New York, New York |
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| Coordinates | 40°47′46″N 73°58′10″W / 40.79611°N 73.96944°WCoordinates: 40°47′46″N 73°58′10″W / 40.79611°N 73.96944°W |
| Built | 1890–91 |
| Architect | Robert W. Gibson |
| Architectural style | Romanesque Revival, Renaissance Revival |
| NRHP reference # | 96001354 |
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| Added to NRHP | November 15, 1996 |
| Designated NYCL | April 12, 2016 |
St. Michael's Church is a historic Episcopal church at 225 West 99th Street and Amsterdam Avenue on Manhattan's Upper West Side in New York City. The parish was founded on the present site in January 1807, at that time in the rural Bloomingdale District. The present limestone Romanesque building, the third on the site, was built in 1890–91 to designs by Robert W. Gibson and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
The church building also is noted for its Tiffany stained glass and its two tracker-action pipe organs built in 1967 by the Rudolph von Beckerath Organ Company (Hamburg, Germany); the church has fine acoustics.
In addition to traditional Anglican services, St. Michael's has services and prayer groups influenced by the emerging church movement.
Sale of air rights that enabled the building of The Ariel allowed St. Michael's to finance a major building restoration.
On April 12, 2016, the church, parish house and rectory were designated landmarks by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission.
Almost uniquely among upper Manhattan's houses of worship, St. Michael's Church has been located on exactly the same site for two centuries.
The first building was a simple white frame structure with a belfry, built for pewholders of Trinity Church, Wall Street, who sought a more convenient place to worship near their summer homes overlooking the Hudson River amid the farms on what is now Manhattan's Upper West Side. At that time the City of New York was confined to the southern tip of Manhattan. Among the congregation was the widow of Alexander Hamilton. A second, larger, Carpenter Gothic building was in use from 1854 to 1891. In the 1840s and 50s Rev. Thomas McClure Peters extended a missionary church in the racially integrated settlement of Seneca Village, demolished to make way for Central Park. In the 1850s the Rector's wife Mrs. William Richmond transformed the John McVickar house, formerly the center of a sixty-acre estate south of St. Michael's, for a Protestant Episcopal "home for abandoned women who found no hand outstretched to help them".
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