Marble Collegiate Church, West 29th Street

The Marble Collegiate Church a New York City landmark, facing Fifth Avenue on the northwest corner of West 29th Street. Undated photo (between 1906 and 1912). Source: Frank M. Ingalls photograph collection, New-York Historical Society.

The Marble Collegiate Church was completed in 1854 as Fifth Avenue Church (present name was given in 1906). The Holland House at 276 Fifth Avenue, on the southwest corner of 30th Street is next to the Church. The 10-story Bancroft Building at 3 West 29 Street, behind the church, was designed by architect Robert H. Robertson in Ruskinian style and built in 1897. It was famous for housing the studio of photographer Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946). It was demolished in 2015.

The four-story building at 264 Fifth Avenue, on the southwest corner of West 29th Street, on the left, formerly housed the ticket office of the Southern Railway. It was formerly the jewelry store, Howard & Co and home of Alexander T. Stewart, before that. It was demolished in 2017 to make way for a 54-story residential skyscraper (262 Fifth Avenue). The old Gilsey House, converted into an office building in 1912, is seen in the distance on the northeast corner of West 29th St. and Broadway.

The four-story mansion, on the northeast corner of 29th Street (extreme right), was replaced by the 11-story 267 Fifth Avenue building, built in 1915 (see photo below).