Monday, February 11, 2019

William Ashdown Audsley - Designer Wanamaker Organ - 11 Broadway - Edward the Confessor Church - St. Joan of Arc School Harrowgate



9 Broadway entrance of the Bowling Green Offices building, "11 Broadway" at Bowling Green Park in NYC.

1890s


I see that wikipedia's current print up is serving up its usual tepid stuff, ignoring and not doing full research into the works of British architect William Ashdown Audsley here in America, ignoring his churches in Britain and synagogues like the New West End Synagoge in London. A favored and preferred spot for Jewish weddings in London btw.
Interior - New West End Synagogue, London


 Not to mention those works of his architectural art, especially the ones in Philly. Still standing btw.
George Ashdown Audsley  1838-1925

 ...The firm of W. & G. Audsley was revived and was commissioned to design the Bowling Green Offices (completed 1896), the largest office building erected in New York City to that time. Two Catholic schools, a chapel in Brooklyn, NY, a library in Norwalk, CT, and a church in Philadelphia, PA, were also designed by the firm.








Former Edward the Confessor R.C.church, N. 8th and York Sts. 




Former St. Joan of Arc grammer school, Frankford Ave. and Venango St., Harrowgate. Now a charter school. 

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1 comment:

  1. UnknownFebruary 14, 2019 at 10:19 AM

    The 1903 history of St. Edward the Confessor has a long description of the architecture of the church by Audsley as well as sections by him on Ecclesiastical Architecture and Symbolism in Ecclesiastical Architecture. The history of St. Joan of Arc by Rev. Edward Hawks, founding pastor of the parish, sections where Hawks talks about Audsley and the planning of the combination school and church. Hawks was an assistant at St. Edward when Audsley designed the church.

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