Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church

875 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo, New York. County/parish: Erie.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places August 21, 2009. NRIS 09000630.

1 contributing building.

From Wikipedia:

Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church (Buffalo, New York)

Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church complex located at 875 Elmwood Ave, Buffalo in Erie County, New York. The church is part of the Presbytery of Western New York which is part the Synod of the Northeast, a regional body of the Presbyterian Church (USA). The complex consists of the large cruciform-plan church building that was built in 1894 with an attached rear chapel. Adjoining them is the Community House that constructed of brick in the Tudor Revival style, that was built in 1921. The main church building is constructed of Medina sandstone with a terra cotta tile roof in the Romanesque Revival style. It features a 120-foot-tall (37 m), square bell tower with a pyramidal roof. The church cost $150,000 to build and has a capacity of 1,000 people

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75317654

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