Home Street Presbyterian Church

I attempted two times to infiltrate this little church at a three-way intersection and failed miserably. On the third attempt one early cold morning, I found workmen going through the front door with toolboxes and scaffolding past the doorway peeking back at me. According to the developers' plans, common area furniture will come from ceiling beams and the facade schist will have a future in the backyard garden once the senior housing development is completed.

The Home Street Presbyterian Church was abandoned in 2009 when funds for boiler repairs were lacking after a furnace fire. The congregation disbanded after internal feuds between the two groups led to dysfunctional maintenance and upkeep. The assembly was finally dissolved in 2011. The church has stood since 1910 when the Foxhurst section of this neighborhood was more suburban. Around this period, the frame houses began to shift into an urban sprawl compromising Italian Catholics and Eastern European Jews.

If anyone has ever been here message me. I would love to see interior pictures.

Address: 1017 Home St, Bronx NY 10459

Update: As of October 21, 2019, it has been replaced by senior housing development.

📋 Reader Records

⛪ Did you worship at Home Street Presbyterian?

The doors closed in 2009 after a furnace fire the congregation could not afford to repair, and the assembly was dissolved in 2011. Nobody has sent me a photograph of the sanctuary from the inside, before or after. If you attended services at 1017 Home Street, remember the two factions that split the congregation, or have pictures of the schist facade and the ceiling beams before the senior housing went up on the site, that record is missing entirely. Full credit given to all contributors.

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⛪ Home Street Presbyterian Church stood at 1017 Home Street in the Foxhurst section of the Bronx from 1910, closed in 2009 after a furnace fire and was dissolved as a congregation in 2011. Senior housing replaced it on the site as of October 21, 2019.