Built 1904 (1904)-1906 Area 2,140 m² Added to NRHP 30 June 2015 | NRHP Reference # 15000367 Phone +1 716-885-2136 Architect Edward Austin Kent | |
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Location 695 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, New York Address 695 Elmwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14222, USA Architectural style English Gothic architecture Similar Trinity Episcopal Church, Lafayette Avenue Presbyter, First Presbyterian Church, Hellenic Orthodox Church of, Temple Beth Zion Profiles | ||
Unitarian universalist church of buffalo in buffalo s houses of worship
The Unitarian Universalist Church of Buffalo is a historic church complex located at 695 Elmwood Avenue, in Buffalo, New York. The building was designed by architect Edward Austin Kent in 1906. Kent died in 1912 aboard the RMS Titanic and a memorial plaque is located in the church honoring him.
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- Unitarian universalist church of buffalo in buffalo s houses of worship
- Barbara wagner unitarian universalist church of buffalo choir april 1 2012
- Church building
- McCann Memorial library
- Unitarian Universalist principles
- References
The congregation is currently associated with the Unitarian Universalist Association. The church building was originally called the First Unitarian Church of Buffalo when the congregation was Unitarian in theology. In 1953, the congregation joined with the Universalist Church of the Messiah and began worshiping together as the Unitarian Universalist Church of Buffalo. The two denominations merged nationally in 1961.
Barbara wagner unitarian universalist church of buffalo choir april 1 2012
Church building
The sanctuary and building was completed in 1906 on land donated by John J. Albright, who built the Albright–Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, NY completed in 1905. In 1908, Col. Charles Clifton paid the remaining $25,000 of the mortgage on the church building on the condition that the pews would be forever free. The church is designed in a Gothic Revival style with walls and tracery in the arched windows of Indiana limestone, a crenelated turret, and oak doors decorated with wrought-iron fleur-de-lis. The interior of the church is English Country Gothic in style. The sanctuary has seating for 400 and features a great oak hammer beam ceiling soaring from stone corbels about ten feet above the floor.
The walls and floor are of the same Indiana limestone as the exterior. Their plainness serves as contrast to the oak and glass decorative elements.
The Art Nouveau stained glass windows were designed by Harry E. Goodhue, of Boston who also designed stained glass windows for Saint Martin's Church, Providence. The pipe organ in the choir loft was built by the Hutchings-Votey Organ Company in 1906. Hutchings-Votey also built the Newberry Memorial Organ in Woolsey Hall at Yale University and the Naval Academy Chapel Organ located in the United States Naval Academy Chapel in Annapolis, Maryland. The Delaware Organ Company of Tonawanda, New York rebuilt the organ in 1960.
The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 30, 2015, as the First Unitarian Church of Buffalo. It is located in the Elmwood Historic District–East.
McCann Memorial library
The McCann Memorial Library contains approximately 2,700 books covering a wide variety of topics including all aspects of Unitarian Universalism. The adult collection contains books on the various religions of the world, philosophy, spiritual readings, life issues (e.g. death, divorce, discipline, women’s role, LGBTQ issues), environmentalism, religious education, inspiring fiction and poetry, among others. The collections for children and youth contain books to help young people deal with various life issues, as well as many traditional books for casual readers.
Unitarian Universalist principles
There are seven principles which Unitarian Universalist congregations affirm and promote: