Marble Collegiate Church, Fifth Avenue and 29th Street

The Marble Collegiate Church on Fifth Avenue, northwest corner of West 29th Street, a New York City landmark. Source: Detroit Publishing Company photograph collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Photograph dated January 11, 1913.

The Marble Collegiate Church was completed in 1854 as Fifth Avenue Church (present name was given in 1906). Photo also shows other buildings on west side of 5th Avenue. Holland House is next to the Church. It closed its doors in 1920 and became an office building. The 12-story office building at 286 Fifth Avenue was completed in 1910. The Bancroft Building at 3 West 29 Street, behind the church, was built in 1897 and demolished in 2015. On the left, the ticket office of the Southern Railway at 264 Fifth Avenue, which opened by 1911 (Alex S. Thweatt agent) and closed after 1917. 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).