Church Missions House/now Protestant Welfare Agencies Building, 281 Park Avenue South, Borough of Manhattan
By: Landmarks Preservation Commission
Contributors: Gibson, Robert Williams, 1854?-1927; Stent, Edward J. Neville, -1896; Selden-Sturgill, Ruth
Series: Designation list / Landmarks Preservation Commission -- 127
Publisher: The Commission
Published: 1979
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Subjects: Buildings; Buildings, structures; Renaissance Architecture; Eclecticism in architecture; Flemish Architecture; Church Missions House (New York, N.Y.); Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies; Episcopal Church. Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society
Notes: Report prepared by Ruth Selden-Sturgill.

Caption title.

"Close in spirit to a Flemish or Belgian townhall or guild hall"--Leaf 2.

"Inspired by the Northern European secular architecture of the 15th and 16th centuries"--Leaf 7.

"The beginnings of the Church Mission House go back to 1821 [when] a General Convention of the Episcopal Church in the United States ... founded its Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society"--P. [1]

Includes bibliography (leaf 8)