Nicholas Serracino
A stone building with a pediment and columns on the main entrance, two towers with green rounded tops and columns, and a dome at the rear lit by late afternoon sun from the right. There are traffic lights in front.
St. Jean Baptiste Church, west (front) elevation, dome and partial north profile, 2008.
Born4 June 1877
Died31 October 1934
NationalityAmerican
Known forArchitect

Nicholas Serracino (1877–1934), AIA, was an American architect active in late-nineteenth- and early twentieth-century New York City. He was principally noted for his designs of churches and parish schools for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York.[1]

He designed St. Jean Baptiste Church and Rectory (1910), one of few Catholic churches in city with a dome and the only one besides St. Patrick's Cathedral (New York City) to have stained glass made in Chartres. This won a prize in an international competition. This was followed by the more modest brick temple-fronted Church of the Sacred Hearts of Mary and Jesus (New York City), built in 1915 for $35,000 and demolished in 2007. His office was located at 1170 Broadway.[1]

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  1. 1 2 3 4 Office for Metropolitan History, "Manhattan NB Database 1900-1986," (accessed 13 March 2010)
  2. ↑ "Three New Churches: St. Clare's Church". Architects' and Builders' Magazine. New York: William T. Comstock. 10 (old series, 41): 292. April 1909.
  3. ↑ "Church of St. Ann". The New York City Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.
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