 All agreed it was time for a new church building.James Wilde, one of the wealthier members, located and bought for the church the current property, closer to the center of the growing village, in 1864.Julius Munckowitz, an architect about whom little is known outside South Presbyterian Church save his early membership in the American Society of Architects (a predecessor to today's American Institute of Architects) and his later tenure as supervising architect of the New York City Department of Public Parks, designed the church, and the cornerstone was laid in 1868.