File:Westminster Presbyterian Church, Delaware Avenue, Bryant, Buffalo, NY - 52630748814.jpg

English: Built in 1858-59, this Gothic Revival and Romanesque Revival-style church was designed by Harlow W. Wilcox to house the congregation of Westminster Presbyterian Church, founded in 1854, replacing an earlier chapel built on the site in 1847. The interior of the church was renovated by Tiffany Studios in 1903, adding many decorative elements in the English Tudor/Gothic Revival style, and seeing the replacement of the original stained glass windows. The Tiffany stained glass windows were replaced with new, more extravagant windows between 1931 and 1952, with other renovations carried out in 1954 that obscured many elements added in the 1903 renovation, which were restored during a subsequent renovation in 1992. The church, additionally, served as the temporary meeting place for Temple Beth Zion following the fire that destroyed the congregation’s synagogue in 1961, until their present synagogue was completed in 1967, reciprocation for the allowances that Temple Beth Zion made for Westminster Presbyterian during its renovations in 1902-1903. The church features a buff brick exterior with stone pinnacles and trim, buttresses, roman arched windows with tracery, a rusticated stone base, brick machicolations, a front and rear gable roof, and an octagonal tower with buttresses at the corners, topped with a slate-clad spire with multiple tiers that get wider towards the base, where there are three entrance portals with stained glass transoms. The building continues to house the Westminster Presbyterian congregation, and has seen the addition of complimentary structures to the rear to house the growth of the church’s needs over time. The building is a contributing structure in the Delaware Avenue Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.