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Madison Square Presbyterian Church
McKim, Mead and White, Madison Square Presbyterian Church
Madison Avenue and 24th Street, New York, New York
designed 1903, constructed 1904-06, demolished 1919
It was built in a High Reaissance architecture style, with a prominent central dome over a cubical central space in an abbreviated Greek cross plan which was awarded the Gold Medal of Honor of the American Institute of Architects.
The church was built upon a white marble base of buff brick and glazed terra-cotta. The six columns of the portico, the shafts of which measure thirty feet, are of pale-green granite. As in many Syrian and Roman churches, the dome is tiled, showing an alternating pattern of green and yellow, the green serving as a background. The building was raised on a marble plinth and built of specially molded bricks in two slightly varied tonalities in a diaper pattern and white and colored architectural terracotta details. The back and part of the left side had buildings attached, so these are blank walls. The Madison Square Presbyterian Church, the last building designed by Stanford White, was demolished in 1919 for a MetLife annex.esigned 1903, constructed 1904-06, demolished 1919.
Madison Square Presbyterian Church
McKim, Mead and White, Madison Square Presbyterian Church
Madison Avenue and 24th Street, New York, New York
designed 1903, constructed 1904-06, demolished 1919
It was built in a High Reaissance architecture style, with a prominent central dome over a cubical central space in an abbreviated Greek cross plan which was awarded the Gold Medal of Honor of the American Institute of Architects.
The church was built upon a white marble base of buff brick and glazed terra-cotta. The six columns of the portico, the shafts of which measure thirty feet, are of pale-green granite. As in many Syrian and Roman churches, the dome is tiled, showing an alternating pattern of green and yellow, the green serving as a background. The building was raised on a marble plinth and built of specially molded bricks in two slightly varied tonalities in a diaper pattern and white and colored architectural terracotta details. The back and part of the left side had buildings attached, so these are blank walls. The Madison Square Presbyterian Church, the last building designed by Stanford White, was demolished in 1919 for a MetLife annex.esigned 1903, constructed 1904-06, demolished 1919.