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The Octagon, built in 1834, is a historic octagonal building and attached apartment block complex located at 888 Main Street on Roosevelt Island in New York City.. It originally served as the main entrance to the New York City Mental Health Hospital (also known as the New York City Lunatic Asylum), which opened in 1841.
In 1883 a Black Catholic mission parish named after St. Benedict the Moor was established, based on a $5,000 bequest by Fr Thomas Farrell to serve the African-American community in Lower Manhattan; his will and testament specified that if the Catholic Church was unable to spend funds for this purpose, it would instead go to the Protestant Colored Orphan Asylum.
The Colored Orphan Asylum was in New York City,m from 1836 to 1946.It housed on average four hundred children annually and was mostly managed by women. [1] Its first location was on Fifth Avenue between 42nd and 43rd Streets in Midtown Manhattan, a four-story building with two wings.
1868 H. H. Richardson House – Clifton, Staten Island, New York; 1868 Alexander Dallas Bache Monument – Washington, DC; 1868 William Dorsheimer House – Buffalo, New York; 1869 Agawam National Bank – Springfield, Massachusetts; 1869 Brattle Square Church (now First Baptist Church) – Boston, Massachusetts; 1869 New York State Asylum ...
Orleans County's only National Historic Landmark, and the state's smallest NHL district, consists of three 19th-century cobblestone buildings reflecting style at its highest in different periods. They include the state's oldest known cobblestone church and its parsonage, as well as one of only two buildings with cobblestone veneer over wood ...
In 1849 four sisters took charge of the boys' orphan asylum in New Orleans, and from there a house was opened in 1854 in New York with the sanction of Moreau. Sisters were sent to this establishment from Notre Dame, Canada, and New Orleans.
[33] [34] The buildings of the former immigration complex were subsequently taken over by the New York City Asylum for the Insane, which became Manhattan State Hospital in 1896 and is now known as the Manhattan Psychiatric Center. [7] These buildings were demolished between the 1930s and the 1950s. [6] [7]
Methodist Episcopal Church, also known as Omar-Fisher's Landing United Methodist Church, is a historic United Methodist church located at Orleans in Jefferson County, New York. It was built in 1892 and is a modest 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, wood-frame vernacular Gothic Revival structure. It features an open square belfry with Gothic detailing. [2]