File:St. Aloysius RC Church, Springville, New York - 20230312.jpg
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[edit]DescriptionSt. Aloysius RC Church, Springville, New York - 20230312.jpg |
English: St. Aloysius Roman Catholic Church, 190 Franklin Street, Springville, New York, March 2023. A contributing property to the NRHP-listed West End Historic District, this imposing stone church was completed in October 1955 to a Gothic Revival design by Buffalo-based architect Joseph Fronczak that was unusually high-style by the standards of the day. The intricacies of the detailing - trefoil and quatrefoil tracery in the pointed arches of the triple window in front, gable-topped buttresses, spindly pinnacles crowning the square corner tower - betray little or no influence from the Modernism that otherwise was taking the architectural world by storm at the time. Founded in 1853 by Buffalo bishop John Timon to serve a diminutive but bustling community of dairy farmers and small-town denizens, the ragtag early years of the parish saw Masses held in temporary spaces and helmed by travelling preachers dispatched from Buffalo, Ellicottville, and Java. The 1869 purchase of the former Old Congregational Church coinsided with the arrival of St. Aloysius' first resident pastor, one Rev. S. Ulrich, who stayed on the job for four years and whose successor, the Rev. Francis X. Fromholzer, oversaw the construction of its replacement in 1876. Of course, the steady growth of Springville's population over the following decades eventually made necessary the construction of an even larger replacement for the 1876 church. Planning for the present building actually began in the early 1940s; a Building Committee had been formed and had convened several times before America's entry into the Second World War put all civilian construction projects on ice. Even for a few years thereafter, persistent postwar building materials shortages meant that it wasn't until September 1952 that the architect revealed his plans for the $300,000, 700-seat sanctuary that would eventually be built, and construction proceeded in fits and starts for over two years after the spring 1953 groundbreaking ceremony. Despite that slow start, St. Aloysius soon became and still remains one of the larger and more vibrant parishes in the Buffalo Catholic diocese. |
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Author | Andre Carrotflower |
Camera location | 42° 30′ 37.07″ N, 78° 40′ 08.37″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 42.510297; -78.668992 |
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Date and time of data generation | 10:32, 12 March 2023 |
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Latitude | 42° 30′ 37.07″ N |
Longitude | 78° 40′ 8.37″ W |
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- March 2023 in New York (state)
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- Gothic Revival churches in New York (state)
- Gothic Revival architecture in Erie County, New York
- 1950s architecture in Erie County, New York
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