National Register Nomination Forms and Photos
for New York State Synagogues are Now Available On-line
For over thirty years historians and preservationists have been researching and nominating historic synagogues in New York State to the National Register of Historic Places. At present, there are several score former and active synagogue buildings on the register, which recognizes American historic buildings and sites of special significance. Now, the New York State Historic and Preservation Office (SHPO) has updated its on-line database (SPHINX) to allow access to thousands of national register nomination forms, including those on file for synagogues. These forms generally carry the most detailed descriptive and historical information about particular sites and/or historic districts. While the standards of research hand writing have varied over the decades, the quality and reliability of the information in these reports is usually high. Because, however, the mission of the writer of the form is in part to make a strong case for a building’s qualification for National Register designation, sometimes the significance of buildings can be overstated.
ISJM has now begun to provide on its website (www.isjm.org) direct links to National Register nomination forms in the SHPO database. ISJM will continue to expand this survey as more forms are posted in New York and elsewhere, and as new links to other landmark designation forms are identified for other states, and for localities.
State Preservation Historical Information Network Exchange (SPHINX)
The newly revamped SPHINX system, available on the State and National Registers of Historic Places web page provides the user with digital images of documents that include more than 4,000 State and National Register of Historic Places nomination forms and their associated photographs. Users can search for nominations by property name, location, county, National Register criteria, area(s) of significance, and/or historic use as well as by other criteria. This is not a complete set of New York's register nominations; only those currently in the possession of the New York SHPO and considered to be public documents.
National Register listed synagogues and former synagogues in New York City (Manhattan)
Actors Temple (Cong. Ezrath Israel)
Address 339 West 47th Street
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Beth Hamedrash Hagodol Synagogue
Address 60-64 Norfolk St.
Architect Schneider & Herter (1890s renovation)
Date 1850 (originally Norfolk Street Baptist Church)
Style Gothic Revival
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Bialystoker Synagogue
Address 7-11 Willett Street/Bialystoker Place
Date 1826
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Central Synagogue
Address 652 Lexington Avenue
Architect Fernbach, Henry
Date 1872
Style Moorish
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Congregation B'nai Jeshurun Synagogue and Community House
Address 257 W. 88th St. and 270 W. 89th St.
Architect Schneider, Walter S. & Herts, Henry Beaumont
Date 1918
Style Byzantine, Moorish
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Eldridge Street Synagogue
Address 14 Eldridge St.
Architect Herter Brothers
Date 1886
Style Moorish
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First Romanian--American Congregation Synagogue
Address 89-93 Rivington Street
Date 1888
Style Romanesque Revival
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Kehila Kedosha Janina Synagogue
Address 280 Broome Street
Architect Daub, Sidney
Date 1927
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Mount Morris Park Historic District
The district includes the former Temple Israel of Harlem, now Mt. Olivet Baptist Church at 120th Street and Leno Ave, (Arnold W. Brunner, arch., 1906-07), but the nomination form contains no pertinent information about the building or the congregation.
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Mount Neboh Synagogue
Address 130 w. 79th St.
Architect Schneider, Walter
Date 1927-28
Style Byzantine Revival
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Old Broadway Synagogue
Address 15 Old Broadway
Date 1923
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Park East Synagogue, Congregation Zichron Ephraim
Address 163 East 67th Street
Architect Schneider & Herter
Date 1889-90
Style late Moorish Revival
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Stanton Street Shul
Address 180 Stanton Street
Date 1913
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