Church of the Divine Unity

The Church of the Divine Unity was a former Unitarian and Universalist church located on the east side of Broadway between Prince and Spring Streets, SoHo, Manhattan. It was built c.1845 and likely transferred to American Unitarian Association after c. 1854. Subsequently, it was adaptively reused as an art gallery (the Düsseldorf Gallery), then an office, and finally was demolished sometime before 1866.^[1][2]

The Former Church of the Divine Unity
General information
Architectural style	Gothic Revival
Town or city	New York, New York
Country	United States of America
Construction started	?
Completed	c.1845
Demolished	Before 1866
Cost	?
Client	The American Unitarian Association
Technical details
Structural system	Limestone masonry
Design and construction
Architect(s)	?
Engineer	?

“On August 6, 1866, [prolific diarist George Templeton] Strong observed ‘another material change in the aspect of Broadway:’ ‘Taylor’s showy restaurant” had become the office of the American Express Company, and Capin's Universalist Church, which had been serving as an art gallery, on the east side of Broadway between Prince and Spring Streets, was demolished. Strong, neither an apologist for the past nor a dedicated futurist, took a fatalist view: ‘So things go. Let ‘em go!’^[3]