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St. Michael's Church is a historic Episcopal church at 225 West 99th Street and Amsterdam Avenue on Manhattan's Upper West Side in New York City.〔Peter Salwen, ''Upper West Side Story: A History and Guide'' (New York City: Abbeville Press, 1989), p. 43. ISBN 1558594299.〕 The parish was founded on the present site in January 1807, at that time in the rural Bloomingdale District. The present limestone Romanesque building, the third on the site, was built in 1890-91 to designs by Robert W. Gibson and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. The church building also is noted for its Tiffany stained glass and its two tracker-action pipe organs built in 1967 by the Rudolph von Beckerath Organ Company (Hamburg, Germany); the church has fine acoustics. In addition to traditional Anglican services, St. Michael's has services and prayer groups influenced by the emerging church movement. Sale of air rights that enabled the building of The Ariel allowed St. Michael's to finance a major building restoration.〔Jim Rasenberger, (“High Anxiety” ), ''The New York Times'', Sunday, 17 June 2007.〕 ==History== Almost uniquely among upper Manhattan's houses of worship, St. Michael's Church has been located on exactly the same site for two centuries. The first building was a simple white frame structure with a belfry, built for pewholders of Trinity Church, Wall Street, who sought a more convenient place to worship near their summer homes overlooking the Hudson River amid the farms on what is now Manhattan's Upper West Side. At that time the City of New York was confined to the southern tip of Manhattan. Among the congregation was the widow of Alexander Hamilton. A second, larger, Carpenter Gothic building was in use from 1854 to 1891. In the 1840s and 50s Rev. Thomas McClure Peters extended a missionary church in the racially integrated settlement of Seneca Village, demolished to make way for Central Park.〔Salwen, p. 47.〕 In the 1850s the Rector's wife Mrs William Richmond transformed the John MvVickar house, formerly the center of a sixty-acre estate south of St. Michael's, for a Protestant Episcopal "home for abandoned women who found no hand outstretched to help them".〔Quoted in Salwen, pp. 47 ff.〕 The third and current building, influenced by the Romanesque and Byzantine styles and designed to seat 1,500 people, was dedicated in December, 1891.〔The New York City Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, (“St. Michael’s Church (Episcopal)” ), ''The New York City Organ Project''. Retrieved 28 February 2013.〕 The present church was erected after an elevated railroad was built on Columbus Avenue absorbing the rural district into the growing city.〔〔(“Architecture” ), ''St. Michael’s Church, Worshiping & Serving since 1807''. Retrieved 28 February 2013.〕〔Christopher Gray, (“St. Michael's Episcopal Church; Restoration, and Perhaps A Striking Tiffany-Style Finish” ), ''The New York Times'', Sunday, 5 February 1989.〕 In 1895, Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933) was commissioned to design and install the seven great lancet windows representing St. Michael's Victory in Heaven, along with a marble altar. Twenty-five years later, Tiffany's overall design scheme was completed with the Chapel of the Angels reredos mosaic depicting the Witnesses of the Redemption. From the 1890s through the 1920s, parishioners donated stained glass windows of eclectic styles. In 1997 St. Michael's Church became a ''Designated Historical Building'' on the National Register of Historic Places and the New York State Register of Historic Places. Its rectory stands at the head of the former St. Michael's Lane: the ghostly presence of St. Michael's Lane may still be traced in mid-block back alleys and service access between apartment buildings for several blocks south of 91st Street. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「St. Michael's Church (99th Street, Manhattan)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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