Compléter St. Patrick's CathedralVersion en ligne Fill in the text with the missing words par marianna visconte 1 St . Patrick's is a cathedral in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City . It is the seat of the of New York as well as a parish . The cathedral occupies a city block by Fifth Avenue , Madison Avenue , 50th Street , and 51st Street , directly across from Rockefeller Center . by James Renwick Jr . , it is the largest Gothic Revival Catholic cathedral in North America . The cathedral was constructed starting in 1858 to accommodate the growing Archdiocese of New York and to replace St . Patrick's Old Cathedral . Work was halted in the early 1860s during the American Civil War ; the cathedral was completed in and dedicated on May 25 , 1879 . The archbishop's house and were added in the early 1880s , both by James Renwick Jr . , and the spires were added 188 8