A well-endowed parish church in the Episcopal Diocese of New York was the first tallest building in New York over a building that was demolished in what year?
New York Tribune Building The New York Tribune Building was a building built by Richard Morris Hunt in 1875 in New York City. It was built as the headquarters of the New York Tribune, and was a brick and masonry structure topped by a Clock Tower. It was 260 ft tall and when new the second-tallest building in New York, after Trinity Church. It was demolished in 1966.
German Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Mark German Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Mark is a historic church and synagogue building at 323 East 6th Street between First and Second Avenues in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. The Renaissance Revival style church was built in 1847 by the Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Matthew which first rented it to St. Mark's and subsequently sold it to them in 1857. Much of the church membership was killed in the 1904 General Slocum disaster, and the congregation never recovered.