Ethical Culture School shares the block with Meeting House for New York Society of Ethical Culture. And, as the Society is sometimes mistaken for a religion, its meeting house is sometimes mistaken for a church, and the school as a parochial school. What separates the Society from a religion is its lack of a deity: its teachings are not based on a god’s commandments, but rather on doing what’s right and humane. So the Meeting House (and school) look more like civic or even bank buildings, not churches; no spires, steeples, angels or saints.
- Name: Ethical Culture School
- Location: 33 Central Park West
- Year Completed: 1902
- Architect: John Mervin Carrere & Thomas Hastings
- Style: Classical Revival
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission: Designation Report
- Wikipedia: Meeting House for the New York Society of Ethical Culture
- Upper West Side Book: Carter Horsley review
- Google Map
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Ethical Culture School, 33 Central Park West, shares the block with Meeting House for New York Society of Ethical Culture.
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