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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. NYPRES_170404_007.JPG: New York Avenue Presbyterian Church presides over the intersection of H Street and New York Avenue about 1920, its missing steeple lost in a storm.
2. NYPRES_170404_010.JPG: New York Avenue Presbyterian Church at Herald Square Civil War to Civil Rights -- Downtown Heritage Trail -- W.4 New York Avenue Presbyterian Church at Herald Square "The churches are needed as never before for divine services." -- President Abraham Lincoln So said President Lincoln from his pew in New York Avenue Presbyterian Church. While other churches were occupied by the federal government for offices and hospitals during the Civil War, Lincoln insisted this church remain open for worship. The pastor, Dr. Phineas D. Gurley, was the president's spiritual guide through the war and during the fatal illness of Lincoln's young son, Willie, who on his deathbed left his small savings of $5 to the church. President Lincoln regularly traveled the short distance from the White House to attend this church, a congregation founded by Presbyterian carpenters on the grounds of the White House in 1793. Lincoln's hitching post remains outside; his pew still stands in this somewhat enlarged, 1950s replica of the original church. President Lincoln also found solace in the church's midweek Bible classes. He sequestered himself in an adjacent room with the door ajar lest he disturb others with his presence. A document in Lincoln's handwriting, proposing that the federal government end slavery by paying owners to free their slaves, is displayed in the church's Lincoln parlor. The plan was carried out only in Washington, D.C. The church dominates an area now called Herald Square, named for the Washington Times-Herald newspaper that once occupied the white building at 1307 New York Avenue. Here, publisher Eleanor Medill "Cissy" Patterson created the nation's first round-the-clock newspaper, becoming one of the most powerful women in the country. Socialite, businesswomen, and political activist, she was a dominant force in the city's political and social life until her death in 1948.
3. NYPRES_170404_016.JPG: President Lincoln, seen above with his family in a portrait by William Sartain, attended New York Avenue Presbyterian Church regularly.
4. NYPRES_170404_018.JPG: A version of the Emancipation Proclamation
5. NYPRES_170404_021.JPG: New York Avenue Presbyterian Church as it looked when the Lincolns attended. The president used the hitching post, left, that remains on New York Avenue.
6. NYPRES_170404_025.JPG: New York Avenue Presbyterian Church as it looked when the Lincolns attended. The president used the hitching post, left, that remains on New York Avenue.
7. NYPRES_170404_028.JPG: Eleanor Medill "Cissy" Patterson at her desk as publisher of the Times-Herald for which this square is named.
8. NYPRES_170404_037.JPG: President Abraham Lincoln's Hitching Post 1861-1865
9. NYPRES_170404_087.JPG: One Nation Under God ... 1. Top left. Chinese American architect I.M. Pei. Below: Daniel Inouye, Senator from Hawaii who lost his arm while fighting in the famous Japanese-American unit in World War II. ... Congresswoman Patsy ... of Hawaii and singer Marion Anderson. 2. Across the top. Shirley Chisholm, Congresswoman from New York and Eleanor Roosevelt shown above the insignia of the United Nations. Below Clara Barton founder of the American Red Cross and Frances... early exponent of women's suffrage. 3. ... 4. Left to right: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, ... Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall ... and Cesar Chavez ... strike for migrant workers. Bottom left: Benjamin H. Banneker who assisted his friend ... surveying and marking the ... square boundaries of the new ... in 1791. Right: the Celtic Cross of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church which illustrates the ... One Nation Under God. 5. Top left, aviatrix Amelia Earhart. Right, the symbols of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Shintoism, and Buddhism. 6. The great Chief Sequoyah showing the Cherokee alphabet, above the contemporary author Vine Deloria. In smaller scale are two winners of the Medal of Honor: Lt. Ernest Childers, an Oklahoma Creek, and Lt. Jack Montgomery an Oklahoma Cherokee. The statue of Chief Crazy Horse is depicted at the Indian Mount Rushmore Thunderhead Mountain, South Dakota. Below: the great Sioux Chief ... Osceola, who never surrendered the Seminole Nation, and Chief ... who tried to establish a confederation between the Indian Nations. 7. Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans above Helen Keller and her teacher Anne Sullivan. Vignetted in panel number five is Helen running wild as a child. Bottom right: the Rhododendron flower, Scottish Thistle, Masonic Emblem and Marine Corps Wings reminescent of Jack Kearney, in whose memory this window was given.
10. NYPRES_170404_094.JPG: Marion Anderson
11. NYPRES_170404_096.JPG: Shirley Chisholm
12. NYPRES_170404_098.JPG: Clara Barton
13. NYPRES_170404_100.JPG: Eleanor Roosevelt
14. NYPRES_170404_101.JPG: I.M. Pei
15. NYPRES_170404_106.JPG: Cesar Chavez
16. NYPRES_170404_108.JPG: Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan
17. NYPRES_170404_114.JPG: Amelia Earhart
18. NYPRES_170404_167.JPG: In honor of those who served and those who now serve in the armed forces of the United States of America
19. NYPRES_170404_190.JPG: With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as god gives us to see the right.
20. NYPRES_170404_222.JPG: Horace Mann 1796-1859 Samuel R. Hall 1795-1877 William H. McGuffey 1800-1875
21. NYPRES_170404_225.JPG: Maria Montessori 1870-1952 John Dewey 1859-1952
22. NYPRES_170404_235.JPG: Science This window commemorates science, particularly the scientists of the United States. 1. The scientists portrayed in this panel from top to bottom are: Benjamin Franklin, with kite and key demonstrations the electricity in the storm clouds. Thomas Edison with the incandescent lamp precedes Samuel Morse with the telegraph -- poles repeat the cross motif. Robert Fulton, who invented the steamship and Robert Peary, intrepid explorer of the North Pole end this panel. 2. The panel begins with an abstraction of [Pierre] Teilhard de Chardin's philosophy of the reconciliation of the spirit and matter. The faceted glass near the bottom represents uranium and its ... radioactivity which lead to the atomic bomb. The symbol in the center explains the benefits of uranium ... in ceramics, dyes, photography, and more importantly, for the production of of nuclear energy. Alpha and Omega, the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet, have long been applied to God. Alpha denotes the Creator and Omega focuses at the point of decision where humans choose either to use or abuse the earth. 3. Top to bottom: George Washington Carver holds the peanut from which he developed over 100 [???] products; Albert Einstein points to his formula for energy, E=mc squared; Jonas Salk, discover of the polio vaccine, with microscope; Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone; and the brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright and the first airplane.
23. NYPRES_170404_240.JPG: Benjamin Franklin
24. NYPRES_170404_242.JPG: Thomas Edison
25. NYPRES_170404_245.JPG: Alexander Graham Bell
26. NYPRES_170404_249.JPG: Robert Fulton
27. NYPRES_170404_253.JPG: Robert Peary
28. NYPRES_170404_254.JPG: Alpha Omega and nukes
29. NYPRES_170404_260.JPG: George Washington Carver
30. NYPRES_170404_262.JPG: Albert Einstein
31. NYPRES_170404_264.JPG: Jonas Salk
32. NYPRES_170404_271.JPG: Wilbur and Orville Wright
33. NYPRES_170404_281.JPG: The church tower with the clock and chimes Dedicated to the glory of god in the memory of Abraham Lincoln A pewholder and regular attendant at the services of this church child President of the United States. Donated by Mrs. Robert Todd Lincoln and Mrs. Mary Lincoln Isham May 26, 1929 (Tower reconstructed in 1931)
34. NYPRES_170404_295.JPG: In memory of Phineas Densmore Gurley, DD Eminent pastor of this church 1853-1868 chaplain of the United States Senate moderator of the General Assembly spiritual advisor to Abraham Lincoln and his wife and daughters Emma Elizabeth (Brooks) Frances Mary (Gurley) Elderkin Emma Harrison (Gurley) Adams
Wikipedia Description: New York Avenue Presbyterian Church
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The New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C., is a congregation of the Presbyterian Church (USA). The church has played an important role in the history of the United States during many crucial junctures.

The Scottish artisans building the White House worshipped on its grounds; they and their families formed a worshipping community that eventually merged with another to form The New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, located just three blocks from that original worship site.

President Abraham Lincoln worshipped regularly at New York Avenue Presbyterian Church during the American Civil War. Lincoln rented a pew for $50 a year. Lincoln and the pastor, Rev. Dr. Phineas Gurley, developed a relationship in which they frequently discussed theology. Gurley presided over the funeral of Lincoln's son, William Wallace Lincoln, in 1862, and then over the funeral of Lincoln himself in 1865. Rev. Gurley had an "insider's" perspective of Lincoln's faith, and reported it as follows:

I have had frequent and intimate conversations with him on the Subject of the Bible and the Christian religion, when he could have had no motive to deceive me, and I considered him sound not only on the truth of the Christian religion but on all its fundamental doctrines and teachings. And more than that, in the latter days of his chastened and weary life, after the death of his son Willie, and his visit to the battlefield of Gettysburg, he said, with tears in his eyes, that he had lost confidence in everything but God, and that he now believed his heart was changed, and that he loved the Savior, and, if he was not deceived in himself, it was his intention soon to make a profession of religion.

The Reverend Peter Marshall preached many famous sermons during World War II from its pulpit. (The original church was torn down in the 1950s and replaced with an enlarged structure which slightly resembles the old one.)

The Reverend Dr. George MacPherson Docherty preached a Lincoln Day sermon on February 7, 1954 to a congregation that included President Dwight Eisenhower. The sermon, titled "A New Birth of Freedom," prompted the U.S. Congress to amend the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States, inserting the phrase Lincoln used at Gettysburg, "under God."

Martin Luther King, Jr. preached at New York Avenue Presbyterian Church during the Civil Rights struggles of the 1960s.

In 1962, the church started a tutoring program known as Community Club; the program is one of the oldest continuous tutoring program in Washington, DC. Originally started as a social club for returning GI's in the closing days of World War II, the club evolved to become a social and academic support service for middle and high school students in the downtown neighborhoods close to the church. The program has assisted approximately 1,800 students since its inception.

The current pastor (since 2002) is Rev. Roger J. Gench, formerly senior minister of Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, Maryland. Gench's wife, Frances Taylor Gench, is a nationally known Biblical scholar and faculty member at Union Theological Seminary & Presbyterian School of Christian Education in Richmond, Virginia. The church's assistant pastor is Tara Spuhler-McCabe.
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