Village Community Church Cooperative (New York City, New York)

 interesting place, apartment building, Greek Revival (architecture)

2-story Greek-revival cooperative-apartment building completed in 1846. Designed by Samuel Thompson as a church to serve as the Thirteenth Street Presbyterian Church. It was formally consecrated on September 3, 1847, but burned in January 1855. By October of the same year, however, it was reopened. It suffered another fire in 1902 but was once again reopened in January of 1903. In 1910 it became the Greenwich Presbyterian Church when it united with the Fourteenth Street Presbyterian Church. Later, the Church became known as the Village Presbyterian Church and after that, it combined use of the building with a Jewish Congregation, becoming the Village Community Church. The two congregations had a falling out over the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, and the synagogue moved to Gramercy Park.

The church was converted to a 15-unit cooperative-apartment building in 1982 by architect Stephen B. Jacobs, retaining the church's design, with six giant Doric columns and a triangular pediment at the roof.