St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery Pano
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
Venerable old East Village church, often involved in politics and protest. In 1828, the church steeple, the design of which is attributed to Martin Euclid Thompson and Ithiel Town, in Greek Revival style, was erected. It’s a 3 photo panorama. You can see a ghost person artifact in the middle. That’s one of the hardest things to avoid when shooting a panorama on busy city streets. In the summer the tree leaves obscure the shape of the building.
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“My apartment faced south, across the street from two very old parish houses; a church graveyard, and the spire were also in view. Amidst the dreary tenements, these stood out as glittering treasures.”
The tenement building itself is obscured by a scaffold, but I lived there from November 1963 through July 1964. I loved the apartment but it had a bathroom in the hallway, which was an unpleasant hallway, so I moved on to St Mark’s Place.
Quite coincidentally, forty years earlier, my father had lived on the street bordering the south of the church, in ca. 1924. In those days, moving from Connecticut to his old neighborhood was something of a betrayal, a return to all that he had worked hard to escape from.