Built 1895, 1911-1913 Area 8,900 m² | NRHP Reference # 09000631 Added to NRHP 20 August 2009 | |
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Location 157 East St., Buffalo, New York Architectural style Romanesque Revival, Queen Anne | ||
St. Francis Xavier Roman Catholic Parish Complex is a historic former Roman Catholic church complex located in Buffalo in Erie County, New York.
Description
The St. Francis Xavier complex consists of a Lombard-Romanesque Revival basilica style church (1911–1913), a Queen Anne style rectory (1895), and a school completed over three phases in 1895, 1906, and 1956. The church measures 156 by 67 feet (48 by 20 m) and is two and one-half stories high with a low-pitched red clay tile roof. A large rose window is centered on the front façade above a triple arched entry. A campanile rises roughly 114 feet (35 m) from the southwest corner of the structure and holds a four-sided clock on its fifth level.
After the Diocese of Buffalo announced in 2007 that the parish would close, the Buffalo Religious Arts Center, a museum that collects religious artifacts from closed churches in Buffalo, bought the property and continues to occupy it.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.