Jose de Creeft years of age, de Creeft took his first job earning pennies by carrying stone and sand at the construction site of "La Sagrada Familia", designed and built by the architect Antonio Gaudi. In 1895, de Creeft began modeling religious figures in clay to sell at the Festival Santa Lucia, Barcelona, which he fired at home in his kiln and sold near the steps of the Cathedral of Barcelona. Two years later he began his first apprenticeship with the craftsman and imagier, Barnadas who carved religious figures in wood. A year later, he was apprenticed at the Artistic Foundry of Masriera
Church of the Incarnation, Episcopal (Manhattan) 20, 1865. The church rectory was constructed in 1868-69, designed by Robert Mook. Except for its tower and walls, the building was destroyed by a fire which began on March 24, 1882. It was rebuilt and enlarged by David Jardine, with a spire added in 1896 by Heins and LaFarge following Jardine's designs. In 1905-06 the church rectory was rebuilt and received a new facade in neo-Jacobean style designed by Edward P. Casey. It is now the H. Percy Silver Parish House. The building was designated a New York City landmark in 1979, and was added to the National Register