Novare Condominium

 Romanesque (architecture), interesting place, 1860s construction, apartment complex

Romanesque-revival church completed in 1860. Designed by Charles Hadden, it is faced in white marble. The windows and doors are all round-arched with semicircular drip moldings above them. The center door has a deep reveal and is surmounted by a small corbeled gable. All three doors are painted bright red. Each side of the front has two stepped buttress piers surmounted by tall, paneled finials with octagonal spires crowning them. At the center, the corbeled roof gable repeats, in larger scale, the small gable of the entrance door. The large, central, arched window above the door is divided into four sections by means of three mullions rising to traceried tops surmounted by two arches, which, in turn, support a small circular rose window.

This Methodist congregation arose in 1842 when the Sullivan Street Protestant Episcopal Church, meeting in its edifice erected in 1839 on Sullivan Street (near Bleecker Street), voted to dissolve and reorganize as a Methodist Episcopal organization. The old edifice soon became too small, however, so preparations for a larger structure began in 1859 with the acquisition of this lot on Fourth Street.

In 1870, its official name, the Sullivan Street Church, was changed to the Washington Square Methodist Episcopal Church. It continued to be so called until the merger of denominations in 1939. Since the merger of 1968, it remained part of The United Methodist Church. The building was later sold and was converted to be adaptively reused as apartment units in 2006 while remaining historically intact both on the interior and exterior. It is now known as the Novare Condominium.

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