South Dutch Reformed Church, Fifth Avenue

The South Dutch Reformed Church, Fifth Avenue, southwest corner of 21st Street. Source: Stereoscopic views of churches and religious organizations in New York City, NYPL.

The first temple the South Dutch Reformed Church was completed in 1693 on Garden Street, now Exchange Place. A new temple was erected on the same site in 1807. Continue below...

After the second temple burned in 1835, the congregation built a new one on Murray Street, where they remained until 1847.

The congregation moved to this old Gothic revival temple on Fifth Avenue (photo above), completed about 1849. In 1890, the South Church sold this temple and purchased the former Zion Protestant Episcopal Church, a Gothic edifice built in 1854, located on Madison Avenue at 38th Street. This temple on Fifth Avenue was demolished in 1890 (after May) or 1891 to make way for the Mohawk Building (160 Fifth Avenue), nine stories high. It was opened May 1, 1892. On the right, the same Church represented in a drawing published in Fifth Avenue Old and New, 1824-1924, by Henry Collins Brown.