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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ScanticAntiques, post: 109128, member: 339&quot;]&quot;Tyng&#039;s fourth son, also named Stephen Higginson Tyng, was an Episcopal clergyman and founded in 1874 the now demolished <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Trinity_Episcopal_Church_(New_York_City)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Trinity_Episcopal_Church_(New_York_City)" rel="nofollow">Holy Trinity Episcopal Church</a>, commonly referred to as Dr. Tyng&#039;s Church; it was located on the northeast corner of Madison Avenue and 42nd Street, &quot;just a block from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Central_Station_(New_York_City)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Central_Station_(New_York_City)" rel="nofollow">Grand Central Station</a>.&quot; Tyng used the same architect as his father had (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Eidlitz" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Eidlitz" rel="nofollow">Leopold Eidlitz</a>) for a High Victorian hybrid design of the German Romanesque. He was described as the &quot;hardworking churchman, the younger Stephen H. Tyng, who organized it in 1874.&quot;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_H._Tyng#cite_note-6" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_H._Tyng#cite_note-6" rel="nofollow">[6]</a> In 1895 the parish merged with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._James%27_Episcopal_Church_(New_York_City)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._James%27_Episcopal_Church_(New_York_City)" rel="nofollow">St. James&#039;s Episcopal Church</a>, and Holy Trinity was deconsecrated, sold and demolished&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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