Architectural Anachronism

“The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, on Morningside Heights [New York], was conceived in 1891 as the world's largest and latest of the great medieval line … it doen't really matter how the Cathedral is finished now. … You can only finish a super-anachronism like St. John the Divine with more of the same. … ‘How do you keep God on Macdougal Street in Greenwich Village?’ The question, posed by the Tenth Church of Christ, Scientist, at 171 Macdougal Street, is to be answered by remodeling the old building. … The new front promises to be not much better than bleak … we can only hope that God gets the message. In terms of art and history, once more, the church has not.”