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Original architectural drawing of Crosby Street exterior.
CROSBY STREET The site chose on March 31, 1833, for a new doors on the west side of Crosby Street, covering numbers 56 to 62, about two-thirds of the way up the block between Broome and Spring streets. Here the third synagogue building of the congregation was built. Being 53 feet in breadth and 75 feet in length from east to west, the structure was substantially bigger than the second Mill Street Synagogue, and very much more spacious than the 35 feet square of the first Mill Street Synagogue. It had a new feature, a basement. This was 10 feet in height, and it was used for housing a chapel, the school, and the meeting rooms. The cornerstone for the new building carried history with it, for it was the selfsame cornerstone used more then a hundred years earlier for the first Mill Street Synagogue. It was relaid on October 3, 1833, the sixth day of the festival of Succoth. The main inscription stone of the second Mill Street Synagogue was set on the west outside wall of the basement. |
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