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St. Barbara's Church (Brooklyn)
The Church of St. Barbara is a Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Parish (Catholic Church), parish church under the authority of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, located in northern Brooklyn, New York, in the Bushwick, Brooklyn, Bushwick-Ridgewood, Queens, Ridgewood neighborhood. The parish was established as a national parish to serve the German American, German Catholic community, which later became Italian American, Italian and then Hispanic and Latino Americans, Hispanic by the 1960s. Description The church was built 1910 to the designs of the architectural firm of Helmle and Huberty. The ''AIA Guide to New York City'' wrote that the parish was "named not only for Saint Barbara, the saint but for the brewer Leonard Eppig's little daughter Barbara — Eppig contributed to the parish. Nearby St. Leonard's Church (Brooklyn, New York), St. Leonard's had a similar history of naming." References * https://web.archive.org/web/20130218043234/http://bushwickbk.com/2011/04/19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bushwick, Brooklyn
Bushwick is a neighborhood in the northern part of the New York City borough (New York City), borough of Brooklyn. It is bounded by the neighborhood of Ridgewood, Queens, to the northeast; Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Williamsburg to the northwest; the cemeteries of Highland Park, Brooklyn, Highland Park to the southeast; and Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, Bedford–Stuyvesant to the south and southwest. The town was first founded by the Dutch as Boswijck during the Dutch colonization of the Americas#Mainland In North America, Dutch colonization of the Americas in the 17th century. In the 19th century, the neighborhood became a community of German immigrants and their descendants. The 20th century saw an influx of Italian Americans, Italian immigrants and Italian-Americans up to the 1980s. By the late 20th century, the neighborhood became predominantly Hispanic as another wave of immigrants arrived. Formerly Brooklyn's 18th Ward, the neighborhood was once an independent town and ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
