{"nrhp_refnum":"09000722","name":"Trinity Lutheran Church of Manhattan","other_names":["Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church of Manhattan","German Evangelical Lutheran Trinit Congregation"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"164 W. 100th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.798198583000044,"lon":-73.96775011899996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2009-09-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Late Gothic Revival brick church with attached parsonage and corner belltower at 164 West 100th Street on Manhattan's Upper West Side, built in 1908 and dedicated in 1909 for a German Lutheran congregation.","why_significant":"It is presented as a distinctive, highly intact example of early twentieth-century Late Gothic Revival church architecture designed by George W. Conable. It also reflects the social history of Manhattan Valley, from its German immigrant founding to later welcoming Latino, Haitian and Chinese congregations. It was the only building in its area to survive the 1950s Manhattantown urban renewal clearance.","narrative":"Trinity Lutheran Church is a brick Late Gothic Revival church at 164 West 100th Street on Manhattan's Upper West Side, built in 1908 and dedicated in 1909. Architect George W. Conable designed it with a gabled nave, side aisles, a three-story parsonage and a corner belltower with a copper-ribbed steeple. Stone and terra cotta trim, oak doors, stained glass, ribbed vaulting, a carved altarpiece and a Hutchings organ installed in 1909 remain largely intact. The congregation was founded by German immigrants in 1888 and 1889, and later opened its space to Spanish-speaking, Haitian and Chinese worshippers as the neighborhood changed. In 1949 the church was slated for demolition under Robert Moses's Title I urban renewal program. A ten-year campaign by the congregation saved it, and it became the only building in the area to survive the clearance that produced Park West Village. It is listed for its architecture and its role in local social history.","period_of_significance":"1908-1959","architect_builder":"Conable, George W.","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Late Gothic Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The church continues to serve as a house of worship and community center; its Hutchings organ was restored in 2007.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:47.883298-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/09000722.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000722/9a2e3a35a7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000722/9a2e3a35a7-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Jim.henderson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trinity_Lutheran_W100th_St_cloudy_jeh.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim.henderson</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trinity_Lutheran_W100th_St_cloudy_jeh.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319998","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_Evangelical_Lutheran_Church_of_Manhattan","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7842803"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/trinity-lutheran-church-of-manhattan-09000722/"}