UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

Roughly between Claremont Avenue and Broadway, West 120th to West 122nd Streets
Allen & Collens, 1910
State and National Registers of Historic Places

This English Gothic complex was inspired by the institutions of Oxford and Cambridge, England and was widely praised by architecture critics and the media. The James Memorial Chapel is the architectural crown of the campus. Its façades are clad in Manhattan schist quarried directly from the foundation, a novel but lauded concept at the time. Its architects designed many institutional buildings in the neighborhood.

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