Holy Rosary Church (Manhattan) - Buildings

Buildings

Rev. Byron purchased the site of the present church in March 1884, and soon learned of a recently vacated and unused church building that had formerly served the parishioners of St. Cecilia's. He arranged to have the building dismantled into its separate building materials, transported those materials by wagon to the banks of the East River, and then floated upstream to East 119th Street, where they again were hauled by wagon to the site purchased for Holy Rosary. All through the summer of 1884, parishioners and laborers reassembled old St. Cecilia's. On Rosary Sunday, October 5, 1884, coadjutor Archbishop Michael Augustine Corrigan presided over the dedication of the new church. The church was renovated and repainted in 1976 during the pastorship of Rev. Ronald Ciaravolo.