Church of the Intercession
550 West 155th Street (at Broadway)
New York, New York 10032
http://intercessionnyc.dioceseny.org/
The Church of the Intercession was initially formed in 1846 in the hamlet
of Carmansville (as this then-remote area of upper Manhattan was called
at the time). The congregation's first building was a wood
structure in Victorian Gothic style located at the corner of 154th Street
and Old Tenth (Amsterdam) Avenue that was dedicated in 1847. In 1872
the congregation moved to a new stone building on the corner of 158th
Street and Grand Boulevard (Broadway). Internecine disputes within
the church exacerbated by the cost of the oversized new building
caused the parish persistent financial problems that lasted into the
20th century. In 1906, negotiations with Wall Street Church and
Trinity Church (which owned the cemetery across the street and
were planning on building their own chapel there) resulted in
the absorption of Intercession as an independent entity within the
Trinity Church Corporation and a new building that would officially
be a chapel of Trinity Church.
The result of that merger was this Gothic Revival building designed
by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue which was dedicated in 1915. The building
is a New York City Landmark and was added to the National Register
of Historic Places in 1980. The Church of the Intercession separated
amicably from Trinity and became an independent congregation again
in 1976.
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