Broadway @ Wall Street
Architect: Richard Upjohn
Date Constructed: 1846
Episcopal

The first Trinity Church was consecrated in 1698, when New York was still part of the British Empire, but it burned down soon after the American Revolution. A second building lasted only fifty years, due to structural problems. What stands on the site now is the third Trinity Church building, built in a Gothic Revival style. From 1846 until the 1860s the church spire was the tallest structure in Manhattan, and old pictures show it rising far above the one– and two–story buildings below.