The former Union and New Haven Trust Building, located at 205 Church Street in New Haven, Connecticut, was renamed The Union in 2014. Constructed in 1927, this Georgian-Colonial Revival skyscraper was designed by architects Cross and Cross. The building sits on the northeast corner of the historic New Haven Green.
Lying on the corner of Elm and Church streets, the site was the home of Richard Perry in the 1640s, who served as secretary to the General Court of the Colony of New Haven. Built for the Union and New Haven Trust Co. during the Roaring Twenties, the building was designed to reflect the architecture of the Green and its three historic churches; the building's golden cupola intentionally mirrors that of the Green's United Church. The Union Trust Company moved its headquarters to Stamford in 1981, but kept a branch on the ground floor. The bank was purchased in 1995 by First Union Corporation, which later took the name of its Wachovia acquisition and in 2010 merged into Wells Fargo. The building's ground floor is still occupied by a Wells Fargo branch. On March 28, 2013, Cooper Church LLC, a New York-based developer, purchased the 184,480 square-foot building from Hampshire Hotels & Resorts for $13.5 million. The New Haven Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) approved Cooper Church’s proposed zoning variances in June 2013. Construction to convert the former office building to 138 studio, one-bedroom, and two-bedroom market rate rental apartments began in April 2014.
30 Park Place, Four Season Private Residences New York Downtown, is a new tower currently under construction in Tribeca, Manhattan, New York City. At 937 feet, the property will be the tallest residential building Downtown, offering residents panoramic views of the Midtown skyline and New York Harbor. The top floors of the 82-story building will have 157 residences, ranging from one to six bedrooms, all reached through a dedicated residential lobby at 30 Park Place. Below will be a 185-room Four Seasons Hotel, with its own lobby on Barclay Street, which is scheduled to open in July 2016.
The property was purchased in 2006, but funding for construction was not secured until 2013. Developed by Silverstein Properties, the tower was designed by Robert A. M. Stern Architects and will be serviced by the Four Seasons Hotel. In May 2013, Silverstein Properties secured $660 million for construction financing.Tishman Construction is managing the project. Construction began in the fall of 2013 and is expected to be complete in 2016. The building topped out in early 2015, and installation of the exterior and windows was finished in Augsust of 2015. When completed, 30 Park Place will be the second tallest residential building in Downtown Manhattan, after 70 Pine Street.
The Federal Office Building at 90 Church Street includes the United States Postal Service's Church Street Station, which is responsible for the 10048 ZIP code in New York City. The building takes up the full block between Church Street and West Broadway and between Vesey and Barclay Streets in the Civic Center neighborhood of Manhattan.
The AIA Guide to New York City says about the building: "A boring limestone monolith that has trouble deciding between a heritage of stripped down neo-Classical and a new breath of Art Deco."
90 Church Street was designed by Cross & Cross, Pennington, Lewis & Mills and Louis A. Simon, who was Supervising Architect of the Department of the Treasury at the time. The architectural style of the building is a mixture of Neo-classicism and Art Deco. It has two towers and the facade is clad in limestone.
The building was completed in 1935, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
In addition to housing the Postal Service, the 90 Church Street building contains offices of the New York State Public Service Commission, the New York State Health Department, and the New York City Housing Authority.
Grace Church in Newark (Episcopal), located at 950 Broad Street in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States, was founded on Ascension Day in 1837 at the behest of Bishop George Washington Doane, who intended it to be the standard bearer for Anglo-Catholicism in the northern part of his diocese (which then comprised the whole state of New Jersey).
The church building, designed by Richard Upjohn, who was also the architect of Trinity Church, New York, was consecrated on October 5, 1848. It is widely esteemed as an outstanding example of Gothic Revival architecture in the United States. The church was built on the site of the old Essex County Courthouse and Jail which burnt down on August 15, 1835.
In Grace Church's liturgy the tradition of ceremonial grandeur inherited from the nineteenth-century Catholic Revival mingles with the influence of the twentieth-century Liturgical Movement. Incense, lights, and beautiful vestments are used, but the ceremonial is intelligible, and the contemporary-language rite from the 1979 Book of Common Prayer (Rite II) is used. Active participation of the people is encouraged.
Grace Church (1835-1865) was an episcopal church in Boston, Massachusetts, located in Beacon Hill, on Temple Street. The church operated for 30 years. Ministers included Thomas M. Clark (1836-1843); Clement Moore Butler (1844-1847); and Charles Mason (1848-1862; d.1862).
Architect William Washburn designed the church building in 1835. In 1951, Isaac Smith Homans said:
In 1865 the building was "sold to the Methodist Episcopal Society of North Russell Street."
Grace Church, c. 1851
Grace Church, c. 1851
Portrait of Charles Mason, minister 1848-1862
Portrait of Charles Mason, minister 1848-1862
Overview of Temple Street, 1870. Beacon Hill Reservoir (at right), West Church (at left)
Overview of Temple Street, 1870. Beacon Hill Reservoir (at right), West Church (at left)
Overview of reservoir, Grace Church (at center), part of Beacon Hill and West End, 19th century
Overview of reservoir, Grace Church (at center), part of Beacon Hill and West End, 19th century
Grace Church of Kilmarnock, Lancaster County, Virginia is the largest rural Episcopal church in the Commonwealth.
The original brick building, the town's first church and now a chapel attached to the current church, was consecrated by assistant bishop John Johns in 1852. At that and some other times, Grace Church shared a single rector with historic Christ Church (Lancaster County, Virginia) (founded 1670), St. Mary's Church Whitechapel (founded 1669), and/or Trinity Church in Lancaster.
The current sanctuary was dedicated by Bishop Goodwin in 1959, and an arcade connects it with the old church, now a chapel. In 1988, Bishop Peter James Lee consecrated the enlarged Grace House. Further expansion occurred in 2002.