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unused church on Willow and 6th: who owns it?

posted at 1/11/2005 5:59 PM
ID# 80567
There's a cool old church on Willow between 5/6. Every year they sell Christmas trees there--but does anyone know who owns the place?

Thanks!

Lisa

re: unused church on Willow and 6th: who owns it?

posted at 1/12/2005 11:47 AM
ID# 80587
This is a reply to: 80567
It is a beautiful old church. From the Hoboken Museum site: Church of the Holy Innocents, Willow Avenue at Sixth Street, 1874. Edward Tuckerman Potter and Henry Vaughn, Architects; High Victorian Gothic. Dedicated to Julia Stevens, daughter of Martha Bayard and Edwin Augustus Stevens, who died in Rome at age seven from typhoid fever. Built to serve German and Irish immigrants, it did not charge a pew fee to be seated, the norm for the time. Potter's banded arches emphasize the polychromatic exterior of brownstone and white and red sandstone. The choir was added in 1913, the baptistery in 1932. Though no longer in use, the exterior details of this Episcopal church remains largely intact.

It is now owned by All Saint's on 7th and Washington. There is talk of them using it to expand it's school.

re: unused church on Willow and 6th: who owns it?

posted at 1/13/2005 8:44 AM
ID# 80601
This is a reply to: 80587
It is beautiful on the inside. I am glad to hear that someone is going to be using it.