sentences:  Alvin Jackson, Pastor Emeritus.In 1911, the original owners, the South Dutch Reformed Church, commissioned the firm of Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson, to design the Park Avenue sanctuary.Their designer, English architect William Heywood, was clearly inspired by the features of La Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, which were translated into the stately proportions and the slender 70-foot spire ("flèche") of its New York counterpart.