Church of the Incarnation
The Church of the Incarnation is a neo-gothic building completed in the 1860s, and is both a New York City Landmark and on the National Register of Historic Places. The church building — a “distinguished repository” — houses stained-glass windows, paintings, sculpture and decorative works of the leading artists and designers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries including; Louis Comfort Tiffany, John Lafarge, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Edward Burne-Jones, William Morris, Daniel Chester French and Henry Hobson Richardson.
The sanctuary was built in 1864-1865, and was designed by Emlen T. Littel. The church rectory was constructed in 1868-69, designed by Robert Mook. The rectory features a neo-Jacobean facade that was installed in the early 1900s. The Church of the Incarnation, at Madison Avenue and 35th Street, first opened its doors for services in 1864. Nearly two decades after it opened, in 1882, the church sustained a serious fire which destroyed the east end of the church along with all the stained glass. It was rebuilt and enlarged by David Jardine, with a spire added in 1896 by Heins and LaFarge following Jardine's designs.
When they rebuilt Incarnation, they replaced the stained glass windows. The church’s new windows (now quite old), four of which are Tiffany windows, are to this day considered one of the finest examples of English and American glassmaking. The church itself is architecturally simple, which shows off the stained glass windows and many artworks.
Madison Avenue, NYC
