Eventually it passed into the hands of the trustees of St.Peter's Church on Barclay Street, and St.Patrick's Cathedral on Mulberry Street, who, in 1842, conveyed about one hundred feet square on the north-east corner of Fifth Avenue and Fiftieth Street to the Church of St.John the Evangelist.

The ground now occupied by the Union Club was once part of the site of the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum..