Fifth Avenue Church, Marble Church

The Fifth Avenue Church (now Marble Collegiate Church) located on Fifth Avenue, northwest corner of West 29th Street in Manhattan. Undated photograph, about the 1860s. Source: Photographic views of New York City, from the collections of the New York Public Library.

This temple was erected by the Collegiate Reformed Protestant Dutch Church and dedicated in 1854. It was designed in Neo-Romanesque Gothic style by architect Samuel A. Warner (1822–1897) and constructed of Tuckahoe marble. The Dutch Reformed Church was the first religious institution established in New Amsterdam (now New York) by the first Dutch settlers in the 17th century.

The Marble Collegiate Church, as renamed in 1906, is the oldest temple of New York City’s four Collegiate churches. It was designated a New York City landmark in 1967 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.