St. Jerome’s Roman Catholic Church, that beautiful building on the southeast corner of 138th and Alexander, actually began at 138th and Canal in 1869, 17 years before the ClockTower. It has catered to people of modest means for 142 years.
The Italianate Baroque revival church on Alexander was completed in 1900 to the designs of Delhi and Howard. That was about 9 years before the ClockTower's Lincoln Avenue addition.
St. Jerome’s is the sixth oldest parish in the Bronx.
The stained glass is not original. The windows were added between 1909-1917 just before the 4th and 5th floors were added to the ClockTower along Lincoln Avenue, so these neighborhood buildings kinda “came up together.” They were designing some good buildings back in those days.
I stopped in to St. Jerome’s last Christmas with bags of groceries for their food drive and I was just amazed at the Baroque architectural beauty.
So I asked “...could I please take some photos
for our building blog?”
The priest smiled and graciously said yes. This neighborhood parish may be poor, but it is as rich in generosity as it is in architectural detail.
Thank you, sir. Happy Easter all, and enjoy.
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