North Presbyterian Church Manhattan, New York
National Register of Historic Places Data
North Presbyterian Church has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places with the following information, which has been imported from the National Register database and/or the Nomination Form . Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- National Register ID
- 13001153
- Date Listed
- February 5, 2014
- Name
- North Presbyterian Church
- Part of
- N/A (Multiple Property Submission)
- Address
- 525 W. 155th St.
- City/Town
- Manhattan
- County
- New York
- State
- New York
- Category
- building
- Level of Sig.
- local
- Areas of Sig.
- ARCHITECTURE; SOCIAL HISTORY
Description
Text courtesy of the National Register of Historic Places, a program of the National Parks Service. Minor transcription errors or changes in formatting may have occurred; please see the Nomination Form PDF for official text. Some information may have become outdated since the property was nominated for the Register.
The North Presbyterian Church, built in 1904-1905, is significant at the local level under Criterion A for its association with the development of the Washington Heights neighborhood in upper Manhattan. In anticipation of, and immediately following, the opening of the subway line to the area, the Washington Heights neighborhood grew dramatically during the early twentieth century. Completed months before the subway line, North Presbyterian Church was built to accommodate its original congregation in addition to the expected influx of new residents to the area. It is also significant under Criterion C as a highly intact example of a Gothic Revival church designed by Bannister and Schell, a prominent early twentieth-century architectural firm that specialized in religious buildings. It reflects new ideas about how modern city churches should be planned and designed, as well as a shift away from the heavy Romanesque Revival style to a more modern iteration of the Gothic Revival style.
