The Middle Dutch Church


La Fayette Place
New York, N.Y.


Dedicated May 9, 1839. 


1731 view of the "New Dutch Church" (later the Middle Dutch Church) 
at Nassau and Crown (now Liberty) Streets. At right, the French Church

Notes:Foxing on image. 
Pink marks on image. 
Printed on border: "Whitney - Jocelyn, Sc." 


Digital ID: 801028NYPL Call Number: PC NEW YC-Chu-(A-Z)



Lafayette Place boasted three churches in less than ten years. In 1835, on the 
northeast corner of Lafayette Place and Great Jones Street, the Episcopalian 
St. Bartholomew's (now at Park Avenue and 51st Street) first rang its church bells. 
 

Four years later, the Middle Dutch Reformed Church moved from its 
downtown site, erecting in 1839 a Greek Revival masterpiece by the well-known 
architect Isaiah Rogers on the northwest corner of Lafayette Place and Fourth 
Street, a block north of St. bartholomew's. An imposing structure, it featured a 
spire that reached to the sky and, across the front, eight monolithic granite columns, 
each 20 feet tall and 3 feet round. Finally, in 1842, a Presbyterian church was 
erected at Astor Place.



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