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The Church of St. Paul the Apostle is a Roman Catholic church located at 8-10 Columbus Avenue on the corner of West 60th Street, in the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City. It is the mother church of the Paulist Fathers, the first order of Roman Catholic priests founded in the United States.〔Lafort, Remigius. ''(The Catholic Church in the United States of America: Undertaken to Celebrate the Golden Jubilee of His Holiness, Pope Pius X. Volume 3: The Province of Baltimore and the Province of New York, Section 1: Comprising the Archdiocese of New York and the Diocese of Brooklyn, Buffalo and Ogdensburg Together with some Supplementary Articles on Religious Communities of Women. )''. (New York City: The Catholic Editing Company, 1914), p.363.〕 ==History and architecture== The parish was founded in 1858, and their original church was a simple brick structure built on part of the current lot, but the congregation soon outgrew it.〔〔 A new Late Victorian Gothic Revival-style church was built between 1876 and 1884 designed by Jeremiah O'Rourke and the Rev. George Deshon, a military engineer trained at West Point,〔 who took over the project six years into construction when O'Rourke died,〔, p.240〕 and probably simplified the design.〔 Rev Isaac Thomas Hecker, who founded the Paulist Fathers, may have had a hand in its design as well, using the thirteenth-century Cathedral of Santa Croce, Florence as a model.〔 The building utilized Tarrytown grey granite stones salvaged from the Croton Aqueduct〔 along with stones from other structures in Manhattan.〔 The new building was dedicated on January 25, 1885,〔Stern, Robert A. M.; Mellins, Thomas; and Fishman, David. ''New York 1880: Architecture and Urbanism in the Gilded Age.'' (New York: The Monacelli Press, 1999), p.770〕〔 ''See also:'' 〕 but was still not complete at that time: the towers〔 had yet to reach their final height, and much of the interior declarations were still to be installed.〔 The church is known for its ecclesiastical art,〔Wilkins, Sharon. "At. Paul the Apostle, Church of" in , p.1141〕 and contains interior elements designed between 1887-1890 by Stanford White and many large decorated side chapels. Later stained glass windows were added by John LaFarge.〔 Other artists who worked within include Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Frederick MacMonnies, and Bertram Goodhue, who is responsible for the floor mosaics. White and Goodhue also offered advice on design elements. Lumen Martin Winter's ''Angel of the Resurrection'' adorns Hecker's sarcophagus, located in the northeast corner of the nave.〔〔White, Norval and Willensky, Elliot. ''AIA Guide to New York City'' (rev. ed.), New York: Collier Books, 1978. p.146.〕 Other Paulist Fathers are entombed in crypt off a chapel on the lower level of the church. The ''New York Daily Tribune'' reviewed the architecture as "vast, plain, fortress-like in its solidity—almost repelling in the aesthetic cast without and within, yet it is the most August, unworldly interior of this continent."〔 The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991, and designated a New York City Landmark in 2013.〔Postal, Matthew A. ("Church of St. Paul the Apostle Designation Report" ) New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (June 25, 2013)〕 A major renovation and restoration of the church was begun around 2000, and as of 2013 is still underway.〔 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. Paul the Apostle Church (Manhattan)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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