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English: St. Januarius Roman Catholic Church, 180 North Main Street at Tobey Street, Naples, New York, as seen during the Grape Festival in September 2021. One of the most distinguished works of Rochester, New York-based architect James H. Johnson, the church's completion in 1966 came in the midst of a remarkable run of striking and innovative designs Johnson conceived in concert with architect and structural consultant Ray DiPasquale and ceramic artists James and Philip Secrest that scholars regard as the peak of his career. (Other designs in this grouping, all in located the Rochester metro area, include Temple Sinai in Brighton, the now-demolished Our Lady of Mercy RC Church rectory in Greece, and the Mushroom House in Perinton, the latter widely regarded as his masterwork.) The church is also a good example of the Organic style favored by the architect, with a sweeping prow-shaped roof; molded, earth-formed concrete on the façade, and grapes as a repetitive motif throughout the design: the church's irregular footprint is said to be patterned after the shape of a grape leaf, the façade is peppered by irregular, jellybean-shaped stained-glass window openings representative of the fruit which are framed on the opposite side by deep, irregularly shaped indentations which makes for a dazzling play of light for the interior. Fittingly, the church contains a shrine to Our Lady of the Grapes. Named for a fourth-century martyr who was the bishop of a see near Naples, Italy - the namesake of the village the church now calls home - St. Januarius parish was founded in 1876 by a small community of German Catholics. In 2010, its shrinking flock merged with the neighboring St. Michael in Penn Yan, St. Patrick in Prattsburg, and St. Theresa in Stanley to form the new parish of Our Lady of the Lakes. All of the previous worship sites except the latter remain in use by their respective communities.