Manhattan’s Middle Collegiate Church Begins Façade Demolition
The congregation is already working on architectural plans with an expected cost of between $30 - $40 million.
The congregation is already working on architectural plans with an expected cost of between $30 - $40 million.
‘We tried to save a couple of ornamental pieces that we hope we can repurpose in the new building,’ said the Rev. Jacqui Lewis, its senior minister.
Middle Collegiate, on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, is one of four Collegiate Churches of New York that sprung from a Reformed Church congregation in New Amsterdam founded in 1628, and they are considered the oldest continuous Protestant congregations in the Americas.