St. George's Episcopal Church (New York City, New York)

 church, Romanesque (architecture), NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, 1850s construction, movie / film / TV location

Romanesque-revival church completed in 1856. Designed by Charles Otto Blesch (with the interior by Leopold Eidlitz - some ornamentation was by C. Grant LaFarge for the organ), St. George's Episcopal Church has been called "one of the first and most significant examples of Early Romanesque Revival church architecture in America".

The design is a symmetrical, twin-towered version of the early Romanesque Revival style. The facade of smooth, warm brownstone, is dominated by a magnificent traceried rose window set above a triple-arched entrance way and is crowned by a steeply gabled roof with a row of arched corbels running below the cornice and with carved ornamentation above it. Identical buttressed towers on either side of the entranceway have recessed arched windows, decorative corbels, and at the top, clocks. Openwork masonry spires that rose to a majestic height of 245 feet originally topped the towers, but they were weakened in the fire of 1865 and were finally removed in 1889. The side facade is characterized by massive arched windows set between full-height buttresses. The building terminates in a semi-circular apse.

The church is now one of the two sanctuaries of the Calvary-St. George's Parish. The exterior was used as a filming location for the USA Network series "White Collar".

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