St. Margaret's RC Church - Table of Contents
......... Hertel
Avenue - Table of Contents ................ Houses of Worship - Table of
Contents
Exterior
- St. Margaret's RC
Church
1395 Hertel Avenue, Buffalo, New York
St. Margaret's - Official website
The Cornelius - Offical website
Built: |
1957-1958 |
Architect: |
Mortimer
J. Murphy |
Style: |
Gothic
Revival |
Patron saint choice: |
"Fulfilled
a wish of the late Bishop
Colton to have a parish named after his
deceased sister Margaret Bingham" - James Napora, History of St.
Margaret's RC Church |
First building: |
1916
chapel |
Church/school: |
1919
- Replaced the 1916 chapel. Became exclusively the school after the 1958 church was built. School closed in 2012. |
Rectory built: |
1924 |
Second church built: |
1957-1958 |
School sold and converted into
apartment building, The Cornelius: |
2014-2017 |
"Cornelius" origin: |
Hertel
Avenue, from Military Road to Main Street , was originally named after
Cornelius Creek, which ran near the street. See Early History - Hertel Avenue |
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2018 photos
Left: 1958 church ... Rectory ... The Cornelius apartments and retail
Left: 1958 church ... Rectory ... The Cornelius apartments and retail
1958 church at left ... 1924 Rectory at right
Gothic Revival style
Slate roof
Cross finial ... Lancet windows ... Vertical pier buttresses
Compound arches ... Plank doors
2018 photos
1924 Rectory
1924 Rectory ... Cross bottony finial ... Blind arcade with trefoil arches ... Running bond brick pattern
Mary and Jesus statue
The first stigmatist was St. Francis of Assisi, who is depicted in the Jozef Mazur stained glass window in the east transept
... See also the Padre Pio Chapel in the church
2018 photos
Note belfry which is detailed below:
Belfry
Former school - now apartments
"Since 1917, the building at the corner of Hertel and Saranac Avenues has been a North Buffalo landmark. In its early years, 1391 Hertel Avenue served as both a church and a school for the Roman Catholic parish of St. Margaret’s. In the 1950’s a new church was built, and from then until 2012, St. Margaret’s School educated generations of neighborhood children within its walls. Now the building is experiencing new life as the Cornelius, a 23-apartment residence in the heart of the Hertel Avenue commercial district. Cornelius Creek Road, from which the building takes its name, was an earlier name for Hertel Avenue." - The Cornelius Apartments (online October 2018)