Spring Street Presbyterian Church

Prayer meetings were held in residences and business locations. After purchasing a plot of land measuring 100 by 100 feet on the southeast corner of Spring and Varick Streets, construction began on a permanent church. 

Described as a shingled wood frame structure crowned by a graceful cupula, the 60 by 30 foot building had 126 pews plus 50 more in the gallery. Many of the materials were salvaged from the recently dissolved Wall Street Presbyterian Church, including timbers, pews, and the pulpit. The cornerstone was laid on July 5, 1810. 

The church was known for its abolitionist stance, and as early as 1822, the church had a multiracial Sunday school and admitted African-Americans to full communion. The Rev. Samuel Cox, who had seceded from the church in 1825 to found the Laight Street Church, preached racial tolerance to his congregation, and declared that Jesus Christ was "probably of a dark Syrian hue." The Rev. Dr. Henry G. Ludlow, who succeeded Rev. Cox, was surrounded by rumors that he had conducted interracial marriage ceremonies. 

In 1834, a mob spurred by prominent politicians attacked the Spring Street and Laight Street churches and the private homes of both pastors in an anti-abolition riot. At the Spring Street Church, the rioters entered the building through smashed windows, took the remnants of the organ, pews and galleries they had destroyed and used them to create a barricade outside against the approaching National Guard, who had been called out to control the crowd. Following the riots, the old church was torn down and a new brick structure, designed in the Greek Revival style, was built from 1835-36 and opened in June 1836.

The church was closed by the Presbytery in 1963. In 1966, the church building was destroyed by fire and subsequently razed. The site is now occupied by the 42-story Trump International Hotel and Tower

Archaeologists discovered four burial vaults beneath a parking lot at the site of the Trump SoHo tower. The vaults contained the remains of 192 congregants from the Spring Street Presbyterian Church. The remains were reinterred at Green-Wood Cemetery.