St. Frances de Chantal R.C. Church

It was New Year's Day, 1892, when the first Mass was celebrated in St. Frances de Chantal Parish. It took place in the home of Miss Gorman at 56th St. and 13th Ave. and the Very Rev. Theodore Wucher S.P.M. Provincial of the Mercy Fathers in America, was the Celebrant.
Twenty-eight families grouped themselves and promised to subscribe a sufficient amount fot the erection of the church.
A few months later the Gibbet property at 13th Ave. and 57th St. Was purchased, and the corner stone fot the St. Frances de Chantal was laid on May 8, 1892 by the Vicar General Monsignor Michael May.
Rev. Michael H. Malloy S.P.M was the First Pastor.
The Church was later enlarged , and served the needs of the growing congregation until destroyed by fire in 1908.*(Another version reads - March 19, 1909.)
Work was begun on a new church in which services were held on the following year. The foundation was blessed in 1910.