File:Main Building, Medaille College, Buffalo, New York - 20201208.jpg

English: As seen in December 2020: the Main Building of the Buffalo campus of Medaille College, at 24 Agassiz Circle. Built about 1925 in the (appropriately enough) Collegiate Gothic style, the requisite admixture of Tudor Revival elements to a Gothic substrate is apparent first and foremost on the two-story bay window that's centrally placed on the façade above the main entrance, flanked by a pair of pier buttresses and with quatrefoil reliefs adorning the stone spandrel panels. Blunter-than-average pointed arches are another Tudor influence - a motif that, along with Gothic-style pointed-and-cusped window tracery, appears on the tympanum above the main entrance as well as in the trio of clerestory windows above the central bay. Founded in 1875 under the name Mount St. Joseph College, the school was chartered by the state as a Normal School (i.e., an institute for the training of schoolteachers) the same year the building depicted here was built, then in 1938 was given the right to grant four-year degrees. It took on the name Medaille College in 1968, when it was rechartered, became coeducational (having previously been open to female students only), and expanded its purview beyond education to a variety of other fields, prominent among which are veterinary science, criminal justice, communications, and psychology. Today, Medaille counts about 2,600 students divided between the main campus in Buffalo and branch campuses in Amherst and Rochester.