Flatiron District, 16th Street Between Fifth and Sixth Avenues

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This is The Church of St. Francis Xavier, built in 1887, and described in the AIA as neo-Baroque and monumental.  Unfortunately, you don't get a sense of its monumentality from this photograph, which kind of flattens it.  It was monumental.  Christopher Gray wrote a column on it in 2005 when it was being renovated.



Mary Sargent © 2010 ………………………….. click to enlarge


And here is the interior.