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(FORMER) FIRST GERMAN BAPTIST CHURCH/ NOW TOWN & VILLAGE SYNANGOGUE The former First German Baptist Church (now the Town and Village Synagogue), located on the south side of 14 th Street between First and Second Avenues, is indicative of the ethnic changes that occurred in this area of New York City. The building was originally built with a German architectural influence, later added to with Ukrainian influenced onion domes, and the removal of the Christian-themed stained glass when it became a Synagogue. (Figure 50) 50. TOWN & VILLAGE SYNOGOGUE. LABOR TEMPLE The Labor Temple, located on the southwest corner of Second Avenue and 14 th Street, was designed by a prominent New York City architect, Emery Roth, as an experimental reaction of the Presbyterian Church to reach out, for the first time, in a deliberate and public way to the working class immigrants that inhabited 14 th Street. The building was designed to spread the beliefs of the Presbyterian Church in a subtle and nonthreatening manner by incorporating many different activities and uses that were more community-based rather than religious. (Figure 51) 52. MCCREERY HOUSE. 53. MECHANICS & METALS NATIONAL BANK. JAMES MCCREERY HOUSE This largely intact mid-nineteenth century rowhouse, with its Greek Revival doorfront and its Italianate cornice, was originally the home of James McCreery, a New York business icon and founder of the James McCreery & Company Dry Goods House. The house was built in 1851 by McCreery, who lived there with his wife and seven children until 1869. He owned the property until his death in 1903. James McCreery was born in Ireland in 1826. Twenty years later, he came to the United States and settled in Baltimore, where he worked for the dry goods house of Hamilton Easter & Company. In 1851, he moved with his family to New York, and in 1867, he founded the firm of James McCreery & Company, a dry goods house that would later become one of the biggest businesses in the city. Besides being a successful business man and merchant, he was also a developer, one of his projects being the Baumann Brothers Store building. Until his death on February 26, 1903, he was known as “The Grand Old Man of Business.” (Figure 52) (FORMER) MECHANICS & METALS NATIONAL BANK BUILDING The former Mechanics & Metals Bank, located on the northwest corner of 14 th Street and Second Avenue, was designed by the prolific bank architects, the Hoggson Brothers, during the 1920s when New York became a world leader in banking, indicating the importance of the business district surrounding Stuyvesant Square. (Figure 53) 51. LABOR TEMPLE SIGNIFICANT RESOURCES: FOURTH TO FIRST AVENUES 20
THE CONSOLIDATED GAS COMPANY BUILDING The impressive expansion of the Consolidated Gas Company Building mirrors the explosive growth of the utility industry in the first quarter of the 20 th century. Henry J. Hardenberg’s original tall office building was designed with wonderful Beaux-Arts ornament that was created to highlight the building’s architecture especially at night, when it was illuminated with the emerging technology of the electric lamp. Warren & Wetmore later added their mark on the building by erecting a skyscraping tower that still rises far above the low-rise neighborhoods of Greenwich Village and Gramercy Park. (Figure 54) FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN COMPANY BUILDING The First Federal Savings & Loan building, located on the southwest corner of 14th Street and First Avenue, is a physical testimony to the perceived importance of Stuyvesant Town; its main entrance on the corner directly facing the “new” housing project. (Figure 55) HISTORIC STREETSCAPE The tenements found in this area on 14th Street, 55. FIRST FEDERAL S&L. between First and Third Avenues specifically, are architecturally significant because they create the desirable “neighborhood valley” connecting the busy commercial area of Union Square to the large housing complex of Stuyvesant Town. (Figure 56) 56. HISTORIC STREETSCAPE. 54. CONSOLIDATED GAS COMPANY BUILDING. SIGNIFICANT RESOURCES: FOURTH TO FIRST AVENUES 21
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Page 3 and 4: STATEMENT OF PURPOSE As first-year
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