Existing building is an alteration of an earlier church.

Menahan Street was originally Ralph Street.

"Ref. Church" - brick - on this site (64 - 66 Ralph Street) in 1907 [Bromley].

Frame "Church" on this site in 1898-1899 [Hyde]. 1898 building has same footprint as 1907.

1894 - Frame church built. "208 - Ralph st, s s, 410 w Central av, one 2-sty frame church, &c, 40x70, tin roof; cost, abt $10,000; (German Reformed Church of Jesus; ar't, E.I Lessing." 1

1897 - brick extension and roof raised. "929 - Ralph sl, s s, 410 w Central av, 1-sty brk extension 35x27 1/2, also a peak roof in place of a flat roof; cost, $6,000; German Reformed Church of Jesus, 15 Central pl; ar't, F J Lessing, 140 St Nicholas av." 2

1912 - Rev. Christian Oswald 3

"RALPH ST, ss, 410 w Central av, 2-sty extension. 40x26.6; cost, $14,000 ; owner. Christian Oswald, 88 Harman st; architect, Hy Wolfensberger. 926 Grand av, Richmond Hill. Plan No. 1229." 4

• 1. Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide 53 (March 10, 1894): 399.
• 2. Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide 59 (May 29, 1897): 956.
• 3. Lina D. Miller, New York Charities Directory, (New York: Charity Organization Society of the City of New York, 1912), 737.
• 4. "Plans Filed for Alteration Work: Brooklyn", Real Estate Record and Builders Guide 89 (March 30, 1912): 669.