Our Lady of Vilnius Church (New York City, New York)

 church, historical layer / disappeared object

Closed Roman Catholic Church, completed in 1910. Designed by Harry G. Wiseman for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York. The Lombardo-Gothic style church with Gothic Revival details is clad in yellow brick. The only exposed elevation, the Broome Street gable facade, is symmetrically divided into an upper and lower section by a molded limestone platband. The lower facade has a limestone water table - plint-molded with three centrally-placed square-headed entrances with raised-and-fielded painted timber five-panel double-leaf doors (top panels glazed), all with pointed-arched limestone typanums above, consisting of a molded lintel and blank typanum with inset molded terracotta panel (that to center is round, those to sides are almond shaped).

The upper facade is divided into three sections with a continuous dentilled cornice rising with the central wide gable section that contains the circular stained-glass rose window with limestone molded surround, flanked to both sides by the pilaster bases of two narrow towers with round-headed slit windows. The towers rise into copper-domed upper belfries. Copper-clad crosses surmount both towers and the gable apex.

The church was closed on February 27, 2007; the roof had been unstable since the late 1990s and services had been held in the basement.