Immaculate Conception RC Church / Assembly House 150

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Transepts
Immaculate Conception RC Church / Assembly House 150
150 Edward Street, Buffalo, New York
In Allentown Preservation District

Excerpts

After a Decade of Decline, an Abandoned Church Finds Its Meaning
By Colin Dabkowski
April 5, 2014
The Buffalo News

The repair of the building also will be central to Maher’s project.

“I’m really interested in engaging with the repair of the building as an artistic process,” Maher said, adding that he has invited the Buffalo tradespeople he worked with for a recent exhibition in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery to work in the new space. “Over time, what I’m imagining is that the place will start to accrue these interventions and installations ... One of the things that is very important to me is that this presents the opportunity to have a more public site, to have people come and to do projects of a larger scale and to involve university students.”

The immediate issue facing the project is the repair of the church’s slate roof, a project Maher is undertaking with the help of contractor Chris Ziolkowski, who worked with him during his Albright-Knox residency. Beyond that, Maher characterized the water damage as largely cosmetic and said it is likely to remain exposed as evidence of how the building has changed over time.

“If you look at that, you might say wow, that looks really challenging to repair,” Maher said. “I would respond, that's a cosmetic thing, and it doesn't even need to be repaired as much as it needs to be exposed, shored up, attended to, in ways that aren't necessarily the ways we would approach development projects.”

Steel Reinforced Columns

Wooden columns are steel reinforced

Note steel reinforcement

Onondaga limestone walls

Transept Stained Glass Windows

East transept: Rose window ... Center medallion detailed below:

Center medallion: Sacred heart of Jesus with knife and flowers

East transept: South window

East transept: center windows ... F. X. Zettler

East transept: Jesus With the Children ... F. X. Zettler ... Detail below:

East transept: Jesus With Children - Detail

East transept: Nativity ... F. X. Zettler... Detail below:

East transept: Nativity detail

East transept: The Annunciation ... F. X. Zettler ... Detail below:

East transept: The Annunciation detail

East transept: Angels playing musical instruments

East transept: F. X. Zettler ... Detail - Angels playing musical instruments

Note that there is a another window depicting angels playing musical instruments in the opposite transept

West transept: owner/sculptor Dennis Maher in front of the west transept

West transept: F. X. Zettler ... Magi Visit Infant Jesus ... Three details below:

West transept: Detail #1 - Magi Visit Infant Jesus

West transept: F. X. Zettler ... Detail #2 - Magi Visit Infant Jesus

West transept: Detail #3 - Magi Visit Infant Jesus

West transept: F. X. Zettler ... The Resurrection ... Four details below:

West transept: F. X. Zettler ... The Resurrection ...Detail #1

West transept: F. X. Zettler ... The Resurrection ...Detail #2

West transept: F. X. Zettler ... The Resurrection ...Detail #3

West transept: F. X. Zettler ... The Resurrection ...Detail #4

West transept: F. X. Zettler ... Jesus Anointed by a Sinful Woman ... Two details below:

West transept: F. X. Zettler ... Jesus Anointed by a Sinful Woman ... Detail #1

West transept: F. X. Zettler ... Jesus Anointed by a Sinful Woman ... Detail #2

Southwest window in the west transept: F. X. Zettler ... Angels playing musical instruments

Note that there is a another window depicting angels playing musical instruments in the opposite transept

Northwest window in the west transept: F. X. Zettler ... Angels playing musical instruments ... Detail below:

Detail: Northwest window in the west transept: Detail - Angels playing musical instruments

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