File:Pagoda at Erie County Medical Center, Buffalo, New York - 20200324.jpg

English: As seen in March 2020: this small gazebo or pavilion is located on the grounds of the Erie County Medical Center, on the right side of the access road leading south from Kensington Avenue, immediately south of the Kensington Expressway. Much about the structure's history is a mystery, beginning with when it was built. A good guess would be the late 1920s or very early 1930s - given the architectural style, the fact that building materials similar to these feature in the construction of St. Bartholomew's Roman Catholic Church, on nearby Grider Street, built in 1931, and perhaps most tellingly, the 1926 Erie County Aerial Survey, which shows no buildings on the site but which does show land denuded of greenery, perhaps in preparation for expansion at what was then called Meyer Memorial Hospital. The purpose for the pavilion is also lost to time, though a clue comes from the fact that there were once four such structures on the site of the hospital (all of them except this one have since been demolished). Architecturally, it features a façade in Onondaga limestone with trim in dark red Medina sandstone, Syrian arches with keystone voussoirs exemplary of a Romanesque Revival style, and a pyramidal roof topped with a copper finial in the form of a pagoda.