NEW YORK CITY \u2014 The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) designated three buildings as historical landmarks this week. <\/p>\n
The Church of Saint Mary on the Lower East Side, the Lithuanian Alliance Building in Chelsea and the Public School 15 Annex in Boerum Hill were given the distinction on Tuesday. <\/p>\n
The three sites join over 8,500 buildings and sites throughout the city that are deemed historical landmarks. The LPC noted the buildings’ importance to the city’s history and significance to immigrants. <\/p>\n
\u201cNew York City\u2019s history is the history of immigration, and the three landmarks designated today provide a tangible connection to places that helped communities establish roots and create lasting opportunities,\u201d Landmarks Preservation Commission Executive Director Lisa Kersavage said in a statement. \u201cThe designation of these architecturally distinctive buildings are part of the Commission\u2019s ongoing commitment to ensuring that our landmarks tell the story of all New Yorkers.<\/p>\n
The Public School 15 Annex was built in 1889 to serve Brooklyn\u2019s growing population at the time, including its expanding immigrant community. In the 1920s, the Annex became home to the influential Girls\u2019 Continuation School. <\/p>\n
The Church of Saint Mary is the oldest Roman Catholic church building on Manhattan\u2019s Lower East Side, embodying the history and diversity of immigration to the neighborhood and the city as a whole. Constructed in 1833, it was central to the earliest Catholics who came to New York from Ireland. <\/p>\n
The Lithuanian Alliance Building dates to 1876-1877 and reflects the residential development of the Chelsea neighborhood at the end of the 19th century. Since 1910, it has served as the headquarters of the Lithuanian Alliance of America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK CITY \u2014 The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) designated three buildings as historical landmarks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":{"0":"post-191389","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-ny","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-nyc-headlines","12":"tag-nyc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}