Church
Grace Church
802 Broadway, New York, NY 10003, USA
Gothic Revival church at Broadway's famous bend, site of a legendary Civil War-era celebrity wedding.
This guide to Grace Church in New York City centers on February 10, 1863, when showman P.T. Barnum staged a wedding here so lavish it pushed Civil War news off the front page. You'll hear how the bride and groom, two of Barnum's famous performers, drew two thousand guests including Vanderbilts and Astors, and why a rival parish had already turned Barnum away. The guide also traces the young architect James Renwick Jr., barely out of his twenties when he designed this, his first major commission.
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