Saint George's Church
- Year
- 1856
- Style
- Romanesque Revival
- City
- Manhattan, NY
St. George's Episcopal Church, at 209 East 16th Street on Stuyvesant Square, was built from 1846 to 1856 to move the congregation uptown from its original 1752 chapel on Chapel Street in Lower Manhattan. Called one of the first and most significant examples of Early Romanesque Revival church architecture in America, its exterior was designed by Charles Otto Blesch and its interior by Leopold Eidlitz.
the building
Rundbogenstil exterior. Blesch's exterior design was influenced by the round-arch Rundbogenstil of Munich's Ludwigskirche and the plain hall churches of Germany, giving the church its Romanesque Revival massing.
Eidlitz's interior. Leopold Eidlitz designed the church's interior spaces separately from Blesch's exterior; he also designed the adjoining rectory, known as the Henry Hill house.
the style
St. George's is considered one of the first and most significant examples of Early Romanesque Revival church architecture in America, its round-arched forms drawn from the Rundbogenstil tradition of German and Bavarian church building.
More on Romanesque Revivalsignificance
St. George's is a National Historic Landmark, a New York City Individual Landmark, and listed on both the National and New York State Registers of Historic Places, designated in 1967.
nearby
- Scheffel Hall
- Stuyvesant Apartments
- Consolidated Edison Company Building
- Stuyvesant High School
- W New York Union Square
- Daryl Roth Theatre