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English: Prince of Peace Christian Church, 190 Albany Street at Barton Street, Buffalo, New York, November 2020. Designed by architect Martin C. Miller, the building sports an unusual take on the Gothic Revival style executed in brown brick with accents in light-colored stone and green copper. The requisite pointed arches are quite blunt, topped invariably with pentagonal keystones and sometimes flanked by additional voussoirs at their bases; the tower is stout in massing, supported by stepped buttresses at the corner, and flat-topped with low parapets. The church's original owner was the erstwhile Hampshire Street Methodist Episcopal Church, which was founded in 1887 and renamed Normal Park Methodist Episcopal a quarter-century later, upon moving into this larger building located a block away from their former home. The Normal Park congregation folded in 1934, and after a brief spell of use by the African-American Pentecostal congregation of Bethesda Gospel Tabernacle (1936-37) and a period of vacancy, the building was purchased in 1944 by the nearby Roman Catholic Church of the Nativity where a new parish, St. Gabriel's, was established (the nature of its connection with Nativity is unclear). St. Gabriel's continued as an active parish until at least the 1960s, and Nativity continued to own the building and use it for other purposes until 2002. It's now home to Prince of Peace Christian Church, an Evangelical congregation offering bilingual services to a largely Hispanic flock.