Our Lady of Mount Carmel Grotto is a national

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located at 36 Amity Street in Rosebank,

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. It is a historic

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designed and constructed by the local Italian American community. Work on the distinctive concrete and stone

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structure was begun in 1937 and continues to the present. The property includes the grotto, a frame meeting hall dated to about 1920, and contributing landscape features and ancillary structures and objects. ''See also:'' It was added to the

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in 2000.

References

External links

Grotto of Our Lady of Mount Carmel website
Properties of religious function on the National Register of Historic Places in Staten Island Historic districts in Staten Island {{StatenIsland-church-stub