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wood windows are severely deteriorated. The large parish hall wing and formerly fully leased community spaces suffer from active leaks, plaster failure and weather infiltration as a result of the ongoing deterioration of the exterior envelope. The estimated cost of the restoration of the exterior and interior structures of the building is $ 6 million.
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with the assistance of his brother, John Bolton, between 1845 and 1848. Though preceded by a figural window Bolton made for Christ Church Priory in Pelham, NY, these windows are the first complete canon, or set, of figural stained glass windows made in North America. The Bolton windows consist of six
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The church received a Sacred Sites Grant of $ 10,000 for brownstone façade and roof restoration of parish house wing in 2014. A site visit confirmed that brownstone façade is deteriorated, shedding large sections of projecting trim. Roofs are actively leaking and temporarily patched and tarped and
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The building was built as Church of the Holy Trinity, and opened in 1847. Following years of controversy, the parish was closed in 1957, and the building stood mostly empty for the next 12 years. The present name of the parish reflects the fact that St. Ann's, the oldest Episcopal parish in
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When the church reopened in 1969, the problem of repairing the large building after a long period of deferred maintenance initiated many conservation projects and campaigns for the complicated and costly task of restoring the church and its endangered stained glass windows. The
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in 1999, the church complex continued to lease school, office, programming, rehearsal and concert space to a wide range of community service and arts groups. However, in 2013, full-time tenants were moved out of the Parish House.
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Since 2012, The Forum at St. Ann's Arts & Culture Series organizes fundraising events with exhibitions, film screenings, poetry and book readings, panel discussions and concerts for the ongoing restorations.
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in memory of his brother. The organ comprises 4,718 pipes, ranging from 2 inches to 32 feet in length, as well as 20 chimes and a 61-note celesta. In 1999, it was recognized by the
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was hired to enlarge and make improvements in the chancel such as modifications to the reading desk and adding pews; Wheeler was directed to follow the original plan in his work.
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Brooklyn, moved into the then empty Holy Trinity building in 1969. The church possesses some of the earliest figural stained-glass windows made in the United States, crafted by
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in collaboration with the St. Ann's Center for Restoration and the Arts initiated projects in 1988 and continued repairs led to the site's listing in the
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as "An Historic Instrument of Special Merit" — the musical equivalent of Landmark status. It is the largest E.M. Skinner organ in New York City.
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A rectory was constructed immediately west of the church between 1895 and 1897. The ground floor of this building now serves as the parish hall.
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One of the stained glass windows, a 19' high and 10' wide window (5.8 x 3 meters) from the church's organ loft are on display in the
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building still standing on the northeast corner of Clinton and Livingston streets, built 1877-1878 to designs by
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in 1925. It is the third instrument to be installed since the church opened in 1847. The organ was designed by
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and built by Ernest Skinner as his Opus #524, the gift to the church from parishioner and financier
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in Paris, were among the world-famous organists who played the organ in Brooklyn.
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The designer for Holy Trinity was prominent 19th-century American architect
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church at the northwest corner of Montague and Clinton Streets in the
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The windows of St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church were created by
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of Renwick & Sands. That church, which featured stained glass by
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distinct sets totaling 55 glass installations, of which 54 remain.
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St. Ann's Church (organized 1787) was originally named in honor of
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Stern, Robert A. M.; Mellins, Thomas; Fishman, David (1999).
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The former St. Ann's Church, designed by James Renwick Jr.
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Gregory Eaton, prior Dean of the Brooklyn Chapter of the
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History of the National Register of Historic Places
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St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark
U.S. National Historic Landmark District
Contributing Property

St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church is located in New York City
St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church is located in New York
St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church is located in the United States
Brooklyn
NY
40°41′40.5″N 73°59′34.71″W / 40.694583°N 73.9929750°W / 40.694583; -73.9929750
Minard LaFever
Brooklyn Heights Historic District
ID66000524
87002590
Episcopal
Brooklyn Heights
Brooklyn
New York City
co-cathedral
Episcopal Diocese of Long Island


William Jay Bolton
National Historic Landmark
Minard Lafever
William Jay Bolton
Gervase Wheeler
St. Ann Center for Restoration and the Arts

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