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A skyrocket landed in the tower of the original St. John's Church resulting in extensive damage to the building. Church members who disagreed with the decision to rebuild left and organized Christ Church on Delaware Avenue.

Caption: The passing of Old St. John's. Tower of the Federal Building seen through a great broken window. From a photograph made in March, 1906.

Source: "The Picture Book of Earlier Buffalo," Severance, Frank H., ed. Buffalo Historical Society Publications, Vol. 16, 1912, p. 125 (
online)

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