Schi­ckel & Dit­mars was an architectural firm

Architectural firm

An architectural firm is a company which employs one or more licensed architects and practices the profession of architecture.- History :Architects have existed since early in recorded history. The earliest recorded architects include Imhotep and Senemut . No writings exist to describe how these...

 in New York City

New York City

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, active from 1885 until the early 1900s during the city's gilded age. It was responsible for many fine churches, re­si­den­ces, and busi­ness buil­dings. J. William Schickel

J. William Schickel

J. William Schickel, FAIA, known professionally as William Schickel, was a German-American architect and founder of the New York architectural firm of Schickel & Ditmars.-Life and practice:...

 (1850–1907) formed the firm in 1885 as William Schickel & Company, in association with Isaac E. Ditmars

Isaac E. Ditmars

Isaac E. Ditmars, FAIA, was an Canadian-American architect and founding associate of William Schickel & Company, and directed that company as Schickel & Ditmars from 1907 into the 1920s...

 (1850–1934) and Hugo Kafka

Hugo Kafka

Hugo Kafka, AIA, was an Czech-American architect and founding associate of the predecessor firm of Alfred B. Mullett & Sons, as well as William Scheckel & Company; he ran his own firm, Hugo Kafka in the early twentieth century, later renamed Hugo Kafka & Sons.-Life:Kafka was born in 1843 in...

 (1843–1913). The firm's name changed to Schickel and Ditmars in 1895, and continued under the direction of Ditmars after Schikel's death in 1907. The firm "enjoyed considerable patronage from German-American clients" and produced a large number of works for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York

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. The firm "focused primarily, although not exclusively, on preparing designs for Roman Catholic churches and institutional buildings," particularly Roman Catholic churches for German-American parishes. The firm's address was listed at 111 Fifth Avenue, New York City.

Noteworthy structures

Churches and Ecclesiastical Projects:

• Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Boston
  Basilica and Shrine of Our Lady of Perpetual Help
  The Basilica and Shrine of Our Lady of Perpetual Help is a Roman Catholic Basilica in Boston, Massachusetts, sometimes known as Mission Church....
  
  , (in association with Edward Welby Pugin)
• St. Mo­nica's Roman Catholic Church, New York City

• St. Jo­seph's Roman Catholic Church, New York City
• St. Joseph's Seminary, Dunwoodie
  St. Joseph's Seminary, Dunwoodie
  St. Joseph's Seminary and College, sometimes referred to as Dunwoodie, after the Yonkers, New York neighborhood it is located in, is the major seminary of the Archdiocese of New York. Its primary mission is to form men for the priesthood in the Catholic Church...
  
   (1896), 201 Seminary Avenue, Yonkers, New York
  Yonkers, New York
  Yonkers is the fourth most populous city in the state of New York , and the most populous city in Westchester County, with a population of 195,976...
  
  
• The Church of the Ascension (RC) (1896-1897), 221 West 107th Street, Upper West Side, Manhattan, New York City
• St. Boniface Roman Catholic Church, Rochester, New York
  Rochester, New York
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   (1887) Demolished due to fire
• St. Liborius Roman Catholic Church, St. Louis, Missouri
  St. Louis, Missouri
  St. Louis is an independent city on the eastern border of Missouri, United States. With a population of 319,294, it was the 58th-largest U.S. city at the 2010 U.S. Census. The Greater St...
  
   (1889) Demolished
• St. Louis Roman Catholic Church, 780-790 Main Street, Buffalo, New York
  Buffalo, New York
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   (1889)
• St. Igna­tius of Lo­yola, 1898
• St. Vincent's Hospital, Manhattan (1900)
• Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity (1902), Central Park West, NW corner of 65th Street, a church with rectory built for $125,000.

• St. Ignatius' School
  Loyola School (New York City)
  Loyola School was founded in 1900 in the Upper East Side of New York City by the Society of Jesus. Originally a Catholic boys school, Loyola has been coeducational since 1973 and today Loyola is the only Jesuit, independent, and co-ed college preparatory secondary school in the Tri-State Region...
  
   (1907), 46-50 E 84th Street, built for the Church of St. Ignatius for $150,000.
• 523-531 E 86th Street (1907), a 5-6-story brick stone dwelling with chapel, built for $125,000 for the Sisters of Misericorde.
• Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
  Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Newark, New Jersey
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   in Newark, New Jersey
  Newark, New Jersey
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  , "following the dismissal of its original architect Jeremiah O'Rourke
  Jeremiah O'Rourke
  Jeremiah O'Rourke, FAIA, , was an Irish-American architect known primarily for his designs of Roman Catholic churches and institutions and Federal post offices...
  
   in 1910."

Office Buildings:

• The Staats-Zeitung Buil­ding , New York City, New York
• The Catholic Club, New York City, New York
• Eleventh Avenue and 25th Street(?), New York City, New York (1900), a four-story and basement brick factory, built for Conley Foil Co. for $165,000.
• The German Hospital, New York City, New York (1900), SW corner of 77th Street and Lexington Avenue, a five-story and basement brick hospital, built for the German Hospital for $120,000.
• The Johnson Building, New York City, New York (1902-3), 1166-1172 Broadway, Midtown, New York City, a 12-story stone front office building with stores, built for Caroline H Johnston, Stutgart, Germany, attorney, and Frederick A Constable of 9 E 83rd St for $500,000.
• 38 West 21st Street, New York City, New York (1908)

Residences:

• The Leonard and Annie Weiderer House (1887–1888), 387 St. Paul's Avenue, Staten Island, New York
• The Tho­mas F. Ryan Residence
• The John D. Crim­m­ins, Esq., Residence
• The Isaac Stern Residence, 858 5th Ave., New York City, New York (1900)
• The Louis Stern Residence, 993 5th Ave., New York City, New York (1900)
• The Constable Building, New York City, New York

See also

The firm's founding associates: William Shickel (1850–1907), Isaac Ditmars (1850–1934), and Hugo Kafka

Hugo Kafka

Hugo Kafka, AIA, was an Czech-American architect and founding associate of the predecessor firm of Alfred B. Mullett & Sons, as well as William Scheckel & Company; he ran his own firm, Hugo Kafka in the early twentieth century, later renamed Hugo Kafka & Sons.-Life:Kafka was born in 1843 in...

(1843–1913).