People in the room
Pattison Brothers, Donn Barber, McKenzie, Voorhees & Gmelin, Rev. Christian F. ReisnerThe advertisement names Pattison Brothers as consulting engineers for electric work and elevators.
1926 / Church in the vertical city
Broadway Temple
Broadway Temple is a church trying to live in the vertical city. Its engineering story is elevators and current serving a congregation that built upward.
The surviving Broadway Temple complex helps readers see why the 1926 advertisement mattered: a church building entangled with a vertical neighborhood.
Broadway between 173rd and 174th Streets, Manhattan
What this place asked the work to do.
Washington Heights was part of the northward city. The advertisement is not lyrical, but it is unusually useful because it names the job, the site, the architects, the builder, and Pattison Brothers' electric-work and elevator role.
What it can carry
This can carry a late, named, uptown project and a precise role.
What remains careful
It does not carry proof that the firm designed the church architecture or all building services.
Newspaper display advertisement / May 4, 1926
Scale is real, but itemization is a duty
Frank's printed professional summary gives the famous nine-hundred-building scale. Later papers keep the firm visible into the nineteen-twenties and thirties.
Where this page comes from The New York Times, May 4, 1926
Why it changes the telling The family may feel the size of the life without pretending every building has already been named and proved.
How far it carries us The aggregate statement marks scale, not a list. Individual projects still need their own papers.