Our Lady of Lourdes Church (New York City)

Church of Our Lady of Lourdes
General information
Architectural style Gothic Revival
Town or city New York, New York
Country United States of America
Construction started 1901
Completed 1902[1]
Design and construction
Client Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York
Architect O'Reilly Brothers of 121 East 44th Street[1]

Church of Our Lady of Lourdes is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, located at 472 West 142nd Street Manhattan, New York City. The parish was established in 1901.[2] The present church was built that year for $80,000 to designs by the O’'Reilly Brothers of 121 East 44th Street out of the architectural fragments of three significant works of demolished New York architecture.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Office for Metropolitan History, "Manhattan NB Database 1900-1986," (Accessed 25 Dec 2010).
  2. ^ Remigius Lafort, S.T.D., Censor, The Catholic Church in the United States of America: Undertaken to Celebrate the Golden Jubilee of His Holiness, Pope Pius X. Volume 3: The Province of Baltimore and the Province of New York, Section 1: Comprising the Archdiocese of New York and the Diocese of Brooklyn, Buffalo and Ogdensburg Together with some Supplementary Articles on Religious Communities of Women.. (New York City: The Catholic Editing Company, 1914), p.358.