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This page describes Malcolm X Boulevard as it appeared in 2001. The tour was developed as part of the Malcolm X Boulevard Streetscape Enhancement Project. These pages are no longer being updated.

19. Mount Morris Ascension Presbyterian Church
16-20 Mount Morris Park West, southwest corner of West 122nd Street - Designated New York City Historic Landmark

Designed in 1905-06 by Thomas H. Poole, this edifice began its existence as Mount Morris Presbyterian Church. It was renamed Harlem-New York Presbyterian Church in 1915 after a merger, and finally became the Mount Morris Ascension Presbyterian Church. This last incarnation resulted when the remaining white congregation decamped in 1942, finding themselves outnumbered by the black parishioners. Andrew Dolkart, architectural historian, remarks that this is "Unquestionably one of the oddest church buildings in New York, ... clad in rough granite with vertical bands of gold Roman brick." (Historic Harlem, page 41)

photo 1 of mt. morris presbyterian church looking from mt. morris park west

photo 2 of mt. morris presbyterian church

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