St Patrick's Old Cathedral historic complex includes St Patrick's Old Cathedral, St Patrick's Old Cathedral School and St Michael's - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| 1809/06/08 | Pierre Toussaint | Faith | The corner stone is laid for St Patrick's Cathedral. Pierre Toussaint helped raise money to build the new Roman Catholic church in New York where he will attend daily mass. | |||
| 1815/05/14 | Joseph Francois Mangin | Architect | St Patrick's Cathedral is dedicated. | |||
| 1817/00/00 | Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul of New York | Vocation | After a seven day journey from Emmitsburg, three Sisters of Charity nuns open the first Catholic orphanage in New York to five children in a dilapidated building known in the neighborhood as The Dead House, 32 Prince St (lost). | |||
| 1820/00/00 | Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul of New York | Vocation | Sisters of Charity work with families willing to provide basic necessities including education to the young children in return for indentured servitude, a common practice. | |||
| 1826/00/00 | Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul of New York | Vocation | The brick Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum is built at 32 Prince Street for the Sisters of Charity. The Sisters take charge of girls' department of St Patrick's School, Mott St, the first of hundreds of parochial schools in New York run by the charity. | |||
| 1832/06/00 | Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul of New York | Vocation | The Sisters of Charity perform heroic service caring for cholera victims. Many of them will from the disease. | Cholera Invades the West | ||
| 1836/00/00 | St John Neumann | Ordained | John Neumann is ordained at St Patrick's Cathedral by Bishop Dubois. | First American Saint | ||
| 1838/00/00 | Lorenzo Da Ponte | Died | Lorenzo da Ponte dies in New York City. Da Ponte's Requiem Mass is held at St Patrick's Cathedral, to the sounds of Allegri's Miserere. | Miserere mei (choral music) | ||
| 1844/03/02 | Rev John Joseph Hughes | Vocation | James Roosevelt Bayley is ordained a Catholic priest by Bishop John Hughes at St Patrick's Cathedral. | |||
| 1844/03/02 | James Roosevelt Bayley | Vocation | Bishop John Hughes ordains James Roosevelt Bayley into the Catholic priesthood at St Patrick's Cathedral. | |||
| 1866/10/07 | A fire from a nearby shop guts St Patrick's Cathedral. | |||||
| 1867/04/01 | Henry Engelbert | Architect | Restored under the direction of Henry Engelbert, Mass is celebrated in the rebuilt St Patrick's. | |||
| 1869/04/29 | Henry Erben | Craftsman | Henry Erben installs one of his 3-41 organs at St Patrick's at a cost $15,000. A masterpiece of musical and visual art, its nearly 2,500 pipes will be used at more than 150,000 liturgies and thousands of hours of rehearsals and concerts over 150 years. | |||
| 1879/05/25 | Old St Patrick's Cathedral ceased as seat of Archdiocese of New York and becomes parish church. |
| Particulars for Old St Patrick's Cathedral: | |
|---|---|
| Area of Significance | Architecture |
| Criteria | Architecture-Engineering |
| Historic Use | Cemetery |
| Historic Use | Church Related Residence |
| Historic Use | Church school |
| Area of Significance | Education |
| Architectural Style | Federal Style |
| Architectural Style | Gothic Revival |
| Architectural Style | Greek Revival |
| Sight Category | Historic District |
| Criteria | Historic Event |
| Musical Instrument | Organ |
| Owner | Private |
| Area of Significance | Religion |
| Historic Use | Religious Property |
| Level of Significance | State |
| Work | Type | AsNotedIn | Creator | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean Streets | Film | Martin Scorsese | "Mean Streets" was filmed at Old St Patrick's Cathedral, NYC |