People in the room
Pattison Brothers, J. Stewart Barney, Henry Otis ChapmanThe surviving record says the brothers designed and supervised the complete electrical equipment.
1895 / Faith and social service
Grace Chapel and Mission Buildings
Grace Chapel is the young firm learning that electricity was not only for offices and factories. It was also for worship, care, parish rooms, and a little institutional city on one block.
East 14th Street and East 13th Street, Manhattan
What this place asked the work to do.
The article describes a group of buildings, not a single room: main auditorium, morning chapel, hospital, clergy house, parish house, and a generating plant in the basement. This is social service wired as a whole.
What it can carry
This can carry an early New York undertaking and a building group where the firm had complete electrical responsibility.
What remains careful
It does not yet give Frank's or Charles's personal words about the chapel. It names the office and the work.