Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church (Buffalo, New York)

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Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church
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Location875 Elmwood Avenue
Buffalo, New York
Coordinates 42°55′15.31″N78°52′37.17″W / 42.9209194°N 78.8769917°W / 42.9209194; -78.8769917
Built1894
ArchitectLansing & Beierl and North & Shelgren
Architectural style Romanesque Revival
NRHP reference No. 09000630 [1]
Added to NRHPAugust 21, 2009

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. [2] The church cost $150,000 to build and has a capacity of 1,000 people

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History

The current church was the parish's third, and was built in response to demand for a larger place of worship. The parish originally worshiped in a building located at Lafayette Square. [3]

The Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. [1] It is located in the Elmwood Historic District–East.

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  1. 1 2 "National Register of Historic Places" (PDF). WEEKLY LIST OF ACTIONS TAKEN ON PROPERTIES: 8/24/09 THROUGH 8/28/09. National Park Service. 2009-09-04.
  2. ↑ Jennifer Walkowski and Daniel McEneny (June 2009). National Register of Historic Places Registration: New York SP Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church. National Archives and Records Administration. Retrieved October 21, 2025. (Downloading may be slow.)
  3. ↑ Napora, James (1995). "Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church - 1894". Preservation Buffalo Niagara. Retrieved 2011-04-23.


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