These columns are all that's left of the Village Presbyterian Church on West 13th Street - behind the face are condos. But the Greek revival porch is enough to make this the favorite New York religious edifice of David Dunlap, author of From Abyssinian to Zion: A Guide to Manhattan's Houses of Worship. Come visit me at school and I'm sure to take you past it, though it might not be a day when winter light and bare trees marble the painted wooden columns in this way! (By the way, notice the surreal building squashed in at bottom right, and the rectangle of blue at upper right.)
Thursday, February 07, 2008
Verticals
These columns are all that's left of the Village Presbyterian Church on West 13th Street - behind the face are condos. But the Greek revival porch is enough to make this the favorite New York religious edifice of David Dunlap, author of From Abyssinian to Zion: A Guide to Manhattan's Houses of Worship. Come visit me at school and I'm sure to take you past it, though it might not be a day when winter light and bare trees marble the painted wooden columns in this way! (By the way, notice the surreal building squashed in at bottom right, and the rectangle of blue at upper right.)