Church of St. Gerard

Delevan and Bailey

architect: Karl Schmill and George C. Gould

owner: Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo

years built: 1911 (Completed 1930)

demolished: To Be Relocated to Georgia

Churches of Classical or Renaissance inspiration are usually even colder than Romanesque or Gothic ones. The preservation of the basilican plan, however, provides interiors as suitable for the needs of the twentieth century church as to that of the fourth and sixteenth centuries.