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.