Church of the Ascension

The Church of the Ascension is an Episcopal church in the Diocese of New York, located at 36–38 Fifth Avenue and West 10th Street in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan New York City. It was built in 1840–41, the first church to be built on Fifth Avenue and was designed by Richard Upjohn in the Gothic Revival style.: 55  The interior was remodeled by Stanford White in 1885–88.: 55 

The church's parish house, at 12 West 11th Street between Fifth Avenue and the Avenue of the Americas, was originally built in 1844 as a residence, and was altered to its current state in 1888–89 by McKim, Mead and White in a Northern Renaissance-inspired style.: 55