Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church

This is the old Gothic temple of the Madison Square Presbyterian Church, on the corner of East 24th Street. On the right is the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Building. Photograph by Detroit Publishing Co., copyright 1903. Source: Library of Congress.

The Madison Square Presbyterian Church was organized on March 3, 1853, in the Chapel of the Union Theological Seminary, University-place. The Society's temporary place of worship was in Hope Chapel.

The cornerstone of the temple was laid on July 12, 1853. The meeting was addressed by Rev. Wm. Adams, D.D. The temple was completed about December 1854. In November 1873, Rev. Adams, the pastor of the church, resigned to assume the presidency of the New York Presbyterian Union Seminary. The temple was demolished by October 1906. More: Madison Square in the 19th century ►