What to see in New York . of architecture. A famouschime of bells hangs in the belfry, and thousands ofNew Yorkers visit the neighborhood on New Yearseve to hear the chimes ring in the New Year. TrinityChurch is the wealthiest church in this country andowns much New York real estate. With its back to lower Broadway at Vesey Streetand Fulton Street is Chapel, built in1766. St Pauls is a chapelof Trinity and is the onlypre-revolutionary churchnow standing. Officers ofthe Royal army wor-shiped here and laterPresident Washington,whose pew is still pointedout to visitors. Grace Church, atT
What to see in New York . of architecture. A famouschime of bells hangs in the belfry, and thousands ofNew Yorkers visit the neighborhood on New Yearseve to hear the chimes ring in the New Year. TrinityChurch is the wealthiest church in this country andowns much New York real estate. With its back to lower Broadway at Vesey Streetand Fulton Street is Chapel, built in1766. St Pauls is a chapelof Trinity and is the onlypre-revolutionary churchnow standing. Officers ofthe Royal army wor-shiped here and laterPresident Washington,whose pew is still pointedout to visitors. Grace Church, atTenth Street and Broad-way, one of the mostbeautiful churches of thecity, is built of whitestone in decoratedgothic style and is sur-rounded by a group ofbuildings for church en-terprises. A lawn sur-rounds the church and itis a common sight in theSpring to see the ironfence along the sidewalklined with people whohave stopped to look atthe early crocuses. Illus-tration cf Grace Church appears on page 22. ^^^^^^^-Tc^ZdZ 13. St. Marks Church, at Tenth Street and SecondAvenue, occupies the oldest church site in Man-hattan Island. Peter Stuyvesant built the firstchurch on this site and Stuyvesant is buried in thechurchyard, The Little Church Around the Corner, muchbeloved of the actors and well known through them,is on East Twenty-ninth Street, near Fifth Church of the Transfiguration is its moreformal name. St. Patricks Cathedral, the great monument ofthe Roman Catholic Church in America, is on FifthAvenue, between Fiftieth and Fifty-first Streets. Cathedral holds rank with great cathedralsof Europe in size, beauty and dignity. The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, partlyfinished, between Amsterdam Avenue and Morning-side Park, at 110th Street, is to be the great Amer-ican cathedral of the Protestant Episcopal will cost many millions of dollars and will requiremany years to complete. A portion of the buildingis now finished, has been consecrated and
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