Gothic Pride: The Story of Building a Great Cathedral in Newark

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Books and manuscript sources that are listed in the bibliography are cited in these notes in shortened form. Abbreviations AABN American Architect and Building News ADN Archdiocese of Newark Collection, Monsignor William Noé Field Archives & Special Collections Center, Seton Hall University Advertiser Newark Daily Advertiser Avery Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University Call Newark Sunday Call Evening News Newark Evening News Flanagan Papers Research and assembled papers related to the history of Sacred Heart Cathedral and other New Jersey churches by Bernard A. Flanagan of Maplewood, N.J. Papers cited here are part of the author’s research collection. NA National Archives, Washington, D.C. NPL Newark Public Library: Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center, Sacred Heart Cathedral files. RG Record group SHC Sacred Heart Cathedral Sheppard, “Journal” ADN, RG 2, box 6: Vicar General John A. Sheppard Papers, in Bishop O’Connor Papers Last names are used for frequently cited persons. Bayley James Roosevelt Bayley Corrigan Michael A. Corrigan Ditmars Isaac E. Ditmars Doane George Hobart Doane O’Connor John J. O’Connor O’Rourke Jeremiah O’Rourke Sheppard John A. Sheppard Waldron Edward M. Waldron Wigger Winand M. Wigger notes 229 1. Destination: Newark 1. Pierce M. McCarthy, “Sermon on the Permanency of Catholic Faith, Preached at the Laying of the Corner Stone of the New Cathedral Chapel, Newark. Nov. 21, 1869. P. M. McCarthy,” ADN, RG 2.1, box 11. Also following quotation. 2. In 1850, the national average was six Irish for every one German immigrant; in New Jersey the average was three to one, or about 31,000 Irish and 11,000 Germans. 3. Estimates placed the number of Catholics in New Jersey in 1853 at forty thousand. 4. In 1850, only 23 of the 814 churches in New Jersey were for Catholic congregations . Dougherty, Bishops of Newark 1853–1978, 6. Among the larger churches in Newark was Trinity Church, an 1809 structure in the manner of the Englishman James Gibbs and typical of the classical-inspired English and later American churches when it was built; in the twentieth century, it became the cathedral for the Episcopal diocese based in Newark. 5. Newark archdiocese historians have traditionally estimated the population of Newark at the diocese’s 1853 founding by taking the population in 1850 and adding three-tenths of the population growth between 1850 and 1860. 6. Wister, “St. Patrick’s Pro-Cathedral, Newark, New Jersey, 1. 7. For a discussion of Saint Patrick’s Pro-Cathedral’s style, see Decker, “Grand and Godly Proportions,” 86–92. Decker explains that the ahistoric Gothic mode represented by Saint Patrick’s Pro-Cathedral was found in Protestant churches in Ireland dating to the early nineteenth century and, a little later, in Catholic churches. Saint Patrick’s needle spire had abundant Irish models from the same period. 8. Yaeger, Life of James Roosevelt Bayley, 103; quoted in Kupke, Living Stones, 55. 9. “Newark Diocesan Scrapbook, 1855–1872,” ADN, RG 2.1, box 24. Quoted in Quinn, The Irish in New Jersey, 82. 10. Paul V. Flynn, History of Saint John’s Church, Newark, 105–106. 11. Quoted in Quinn, The Irish in New Jersey, 84. 12. Bayley to Corrigan, August 19, 1873, Archives of the Archdiocese of New York, C-1. Quoted in Curran, Michael Augustine Corrigan and the Shaping of Conservative Catholicism in America, 1878–1902, 43n, 47. 13. Dougherty, Bishops of Newark, 14. 14. Antiques 102 (August 1972): 256–261. The cathedra by Jelli¤ remains in the sanctuary of Saint Patrick’s Pro-Cathedral in Newark. 15. See Joseph M. Flynn, Catholic Church in New Jersey, 601, for another local example of employing an intermediary to purchase land for Catholic use. It involved the transaction of the South Orange real estate for Seton Hall. 16. Bayley, “Episcopal Register,” February 19, 1859, entry 69, ADN, RG 2.1, box 3. 17. South Park was renamed Lincoln Park in 1869. The second site was irregular in shape, with 400 feet on Broad Street and 271 feet on Lagrange Street (sometimes called Lagrange Place and sometimes with an uppercase G). It constituted the small block immediately south of the public park. The diocese paid $10,000 for the first site, $52,000 for the second, and $60,000 for the third and final site, on a lot bounded by Fifth and Sixth Avenues (now Park Avenue and Victoria Avenue, respectively) and Clifton Avenue and Ridge Street. See also Brady, “The Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in...