St. Augustine

St. Augustine's Church in the Bronx in 2011
St. Augustine’s in 2011, photo by the author

Location: 1183 Franklin Avenue, Block: 2611, Lot 1

Status: Never landmarked or heard, demolished in 2012 after creeping maintenance costs became too expensive. A new condo project, Augustine Apartments, is set to occupy the space in August, 2017.

Description from the Bronx Survey:

St. Augustine’s Roman Catholic Church is an impressively sited Romanesque Revival style structure that sits on a high point of land on East 167th Street at the junction of Fulton and Franklin Avenues. The church was designed in 1894 by the architect Louis H, Giele, who was born in Germany and emigrated to New York as a child, Giele set up an architectural practice in New York and specialized in the design, of Roman Catholic churches and other ecclesiastical buildings.

St. Augustine’s Church was inspired by French Romanesque precedents and with its richly ornamented Ohio brownstone south facade, round-arched openings and twin square towers it resembles such twelfth-century buildings as Angouleme Cathedral. This basically French Romanesque form is tempered by the use of a Renaissance-inspired triumphal arch motif with four banded columns at the main entrance to the church.

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