The Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe, a Catholic house of worship on West 14th Street, is a grandly inventive architectural oddity and the mother of all Hispanic storefront churches in New York City.
Manhattan’s first church created for a Spanish-speaking congregation, it was cobbled together out of two adjacent rowhouses in 1902 and 1917.
But the seminal Spanish-language church was deconsecrated by the Archdiocese of New York in January, paving the way for its potential sale, alteration or demolition.
On May 23, the city Landmarks Preservation Commission designated as a landmark the former Colored School No.
4 on West 17th Street in Chelsea, the last-known “colored” schoolhouse remaining in Manhattan from the city’s segregated 19th-century school system.
Persons:
Guadalupe, Andrew Berman, Sarah Carroll
Organizations:
Our, Archdiocese, Village, Greenwich, Landmarks Preservation Commission, Colored, West
Locations:
New York City, Manhattan’s, rioja, New York, Chelsea, Manhattan