Another adaptive reuse Harlem horse stable can be found while walking past 122nd Street, between ACP/7th and FDB/8th Avenue. We are guessing that the 2nd Friendship Baptist Church building at 215 West 122nd Street probably started out as a low-level stable or carriage house for the brownstones in the immediate area. There a handful of these left over in Harlem and its always a nice reminder of the city's past before automobiles became the norm. The closest subway to this location is the 2,3 or A,B,C,D train at 125th Street. Photo by Ulysses
Thursday, May 20, 2010
☞ WALK: The 122nd Street Carriage House
Another adaptive reuse Harlem horse stable can be found while walking past 122nd Street, between ACP/7th and FDB/8th Avenue. We are guessing that the 2nd Friendship Baptist Church building at 215 West 122nd Street probably started out as a low-level stable or carriage house for the brownstones in the immediate area. There a handful of these left over in Harlem and its always a nice reminder of the city's past before automobiles became the norm. The closest subway to this location is the 2,3 or A,B,C,D train at 125th Street. Photo by Ulysses
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This could make a beautiful home conversion or a maybe and even more spectacular restaurant conversion (I'd make it double height in the middle with upstairs seating built around the middle). But the location doesn't have the foot traffic I don't think. Not to mention zoning ...
ReplyDeleteFor a building that houses a church, it is in pretty bad shape and need sprucing up. Where is the collections going?
ReplyDeleteI live on this block and many of us are very concerned about this building.
ReplyDeleteIt is Friendship Baptist Church and it had a severe fire five years ago.
Since then the family has been in a fight, let it to rot, its structurally unsafe and neighbors are worried about it falling into their yards.
We would LOVE to PRESERVE the building but aren't sure how.
Assuming we need to get the names of the owners but we dont have that information.
Anyone have an idea of how to get this going?