1929

Manhattan: 4th Avenue - 20th Street (East)

Fourth Avenue, at the S. E. corner of East 20th Street, showing the All Souls Unitarian Church, erected 1855. The Society was incorporated in 1919 as the "First Congregational Church of New York", from the outcome of a few services held by William Ellery Channing. Edward Everett preached at the dedication of the church, in Chambers Street, in 1820. The Rev. Henry Ware, Jr. was the first pastor, and his successor was Dr. Henry W. Bellows, the President of the Sanitary Commission during the Civil War. He was succeeded by the Rev. Theodore C. Williams. William Cullen Bryant and Peter Cooper were parishioners here. It will shortly be demolished and the site remain vacant until 1939, when a 6 story apartment house will rise here. P. L. Sperr March 27, 1929

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection