Location: 744 Elton Avenue. Block: 2378, Lot:46.
Status: Never landmarked or heard. Currently building serves as the Great Eternal Baptist Church.
Description from the Bronx Survey: 1879, Henry Piering.
Similar to the Elton Avenue Methodist Church and located nearby at Elton Avenue and 156th Street is the Reformed Church of Melrose, It was designed by Henry Piering in 1879 and is a more sophisticated example of Victorian Gothic church architecture.
The flat facade is handsomely articulated by the use of brick corbeling which appears on the window lintels and in an unusual pattern under the eaves and over the central entrance. The facade is broken into three bays by brick piers that flank Gothic-arched stained glass windows and a central rose window. The structure is topped by a returned cornice and a particularly handsome steeple ornamented with arched ventilators and capped by a short polygonal spire.
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