[2][3] The congregation was renamed Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church in 1886.

In 1872, James Lenox donated a church building, designed in High Victorian Gothic style by R.H. Robertson, on the East 73rd Street site.

[4] In 1927, George Arthur Buttrick succeeded Henry Sloane Coffin as minister.

[6] Writer Frederick Buechner attended MAPC and was eventually ordained there in 1958.

During Read's tenure, his sermons were mailed out each Monday as part of a subscription service, and some of his regular radio sermons were broadcast nationally by the National Council of Churches.