Church of St. Elizabeth is a
Roman Catholic parish church in the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, located at West 187th Street at Wadsworth Avenue in
Washington Heights,
Manhattan,
New York City. The parish was established in 1869, originally located on 187th Street at
Broadway from 1869 to 1929.
[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.325.
The parish was founded in 1869 in what was then known as
Fort Washington by the Rev. Cornelius O’Callaghan. The parish's founding meant that it took on as an out-mission
St. John's in the Bronx, which was then being administered to by the Jesuits of
Fordham University
Fordham University () is a Private university, private Jesuit universities, Jesuit research university in New York City. Established in 1841 and named after the Fordham, Bronx, Fordham neighborhood of the The Bronx, Bronx in which its origina ...
. St. John's broke off as its own parish in 1877.
[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.387. The original address, as listed in 1892, was at King's Bridge Road, near 187th Street.
The World Almanac 1892 and Book of Facts
' (New York: Press Publishing, 1892), p.390.
Buildings
The present
Neo-Gothic stone church was begun in 1927 with designs by architect
Robert J. Reiley. A three-storey brick and stone rectory on West 187th Street was built in 1913 for $20,000 to designs by architect
Edward Lee Young of 12 East 30th Street.
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Roman Catholic churches completed in 1913
Roman Catholic churches completed in 1929
Religious organizations established in 1869
Gothic Revival church buildings in New York City
Roman Catholic churches in Manhattan
Washington Heights, Manhattan
1869 establishments in New York (state)
20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the United States
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