I     Francis J.  Sypher, Jr.
 

Detail of the Herbert Shipman Memorial Window of the Church of the Heavenly Rest. Center: the Seal of Columbia
University in the City of New York; left: the shield of the Church of the Heavenly Rest; right: the Seal of Holland Lodge.
(For additional information, see notes.) Photo, F.f. Sypher, Easter, 16 April 1995.
 

by Grand Central Terminal, with its open-air
railroad tracks surrounded by cattle yards. The
main residential neighborhood was still well
below 42nd Street. However, the city was
growing with almost unimaginable rapidity,
and residences were being built farther and
farther north along Fifth Avenue, where the
trend had begun at Washington Square.
Midtown was also becoming home to impor¬
tant institutions, such as Columbia College,
which had moved in 1849 from the Park Place
campus near City Hall, to Madison Avenue and
49th Street (where the College remained until
1897, when it came to Morningside Heights).
Prominent religious establishments in the area
 

were St. Patrick's Cathedral, begun in 1858
(dedicated in 1879), and Temple Emanu-El,
then at 43rd Street and Fifth Avenue
(completed in 1868).

Dr. Howland was born in New York on 9
November 1820, and graduated in 1840 from
St. Paul's College — a short4ived institution
founded in 1836 by W. A. Muhlenberg (D.D.,
1834, Hon.). College Point, in Queens County,
takes its name from the college's
location there. Howland attended General
Theological Seminary, and after a brief period
as an assistant at St. Luke's, on Hudson Street,
he was called in 1847 to the Church of the Holy
Aposdes, which had been founded in 1844. He
 

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