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Posted: October 15, 2024
NY Landmarks Conservancy’s Sacred Sites pledges 16 grants
New York, NY The New York Landmarks Conservancy’s Sacred Sites Committee awarded 16 matching grants totaling $321,000 to 15 sites throughout New York state.
New York City grantees include the Bowery Mission chapel, located in an 1876 neo-Grec tenement building, that received a $10,000 grant toward roof replacement. The Church of St. Paul & St. Andrew, United Methodist, an 1895-1897 Renaissance-revival church on the Upper West Side, received a $30,000 grant to support partial roof replacement. Also on the Upper West Side, St. Michael’s Episcopal Church, an 1891 Romanesque-revival church by architect Robert Gibson received a $12,000 grant to support window restoration.
Moving to Brooklyn, the parish of Holy Family-St. Thomas Aquinas, in Park Slope, an 1885 Gothic-revival red-brick church by architect Williams Schickel, will use a $15,000 grant to support masonry and gutter repairs. In Sunset Park, the 1903 St. Michael’s Roman Catholic Church, a Romanesque-revival building by architect Raymond Almirall, received a $30,000 grant toward a parapet, roof, and gutter project. The colonial-revival Flatbush-Tompkins Congregational Church will use a $45,000 grant to support masonry, roof, and flashing repairs at this 1900-1910 church by architects Allen, Collens, & Jallade. In Flushing, Queens, St. George’s Episcopal Church, an 1853 Gothic-revival stone church by architects Wills & Dudley, received a $23,000 grant to support the chapel roof and gutter restoration.
On Long Island, where the conservancy’s grantmaking is supported by funding from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation, four sites received grants totaling $49,000. Four additional sites in the Capital Region, Finger Lakes, and western New York received a total of $92,000 in matching grants to support spire restoration, stained glass restoration, masonry repointing, and architectural work. Combined, the 15 grantees reach almost 140,000 people beyond their members through social, community, and cultural programs.
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