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✎ The Church of the Holy Name of Jesus was organized in 1868 in the area then known as Bloomingdale. A wood-frame church was erected on Bloomingdale Road at what is now Broadway & 97th St. Thomas H. Poole designed the present Gothic Revival church located on the northwest corner of Amsterdam Avenue & 96th St. It was built in stages of richly carved pink Milford granite from 1891 to 1900. The steeple was added in 1918. The large interior is noted for its hammer-and-beam ceiling, Munich stained glass windows, terrazzo floor, beautiful marble altars, & one of the best examples of a "wooden arched ceiling”. Run by the Franciscan Friars with a wide range of services to the community including a school.

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