. Construction : a journal for the architectural engineering and contracting interests of Canada . ved its use-fulness, but because of the public clamor the buildingwas preserved and services are still held in it, thoughits share of the parish work has been transferred toSt. Luke s, in Hudson street. The building has nowbeen condemned for the widening of Varick street,under which the new Seventh avenue subway will bebuilt. This much-needed impro\ement threatens tocut off the imposing portico and tow^er of the oldchurch, thus destroying it entirely. Various plansto save the church have been pro
. Construction : a journal for the architectural engineering and contracting interests of Canada . ved its use-fulness, but because of the public clamor the buildingwas preserved and services are still held in it, thoughits share of the parish work has been transferred toSt. Luke s, in Hudson street. The building has nowbeen condemned for the widening of Varick street,under which the new Seventh avenue subway will bebuilt. This much-needed impro\ement threatens tocut off the imposing portico and tow^er of the oldchurch, thus destroying it entirely. Various plansto save the church have been proposed, and thesimplest and best of them is to cut a narrow streeton either side of it, connecting Varick street with lane and York street, back of the would isolate the building and leave it as apermanent monument of old New York on an islandof its own in the sea of traffic. Londons experiencewith St. Clement Danes indicates that the traffic willnot be discommoded by this plan. The church isnearly 100 years old, and is a fine example of churcharchitecture. CONSTRUCTION 363.
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