File:Former St. Jude's Episcopal Church, future St. Mary Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church - Buffalo, New York - 20220807.jpg

English: The former home of St. Jude's Episcopal Church at 124 Macamley Street (corner Dash Street) in Buffalo, New York, as seen on an August 2022 afternoon. A work of the locally-based architectural practice of North & Shelgren, this rustic stone church dates to 1932 and, with its sleek lines, simplified ornamentation; flat-roofed, spireless corner tower, and use of 15th- and 16th-century English country churches as stylistic inspiration, is emblematic of the late phase of the Gothic Revival. The half-timbering on the side elevations, meanwhile, adds a modicum of Tudor Revival influence. Founded in 1895 as a mission of the no-longer-extant St. James Episcopal Church on the Near East Side to minister to the spiritual needs of the Episcopalians of the rapidly-growing South Buffalo neighborhood now known as the Triangle, St. Jude's purchased the lot on which their current building stands in 1896 and erected a small frame chapel, which served the congregation's needs until construction began on their present building around 1928. The effects of the Great Depression meant the process proceeded slowly, forcing services to be held for several years in the decked-over basement of the incomplete building, and the abandonment of the more elaborate design proposed by architect Charles F. Obenhack in favor of the one seen here. St. Jude's continued in operation until about 2019, when changing neighborhood demographics and a decline in religious observance in general shrunk the membership rolls to the point where the parish was no longer viable. The property was sold to St. Mary Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church in 2022, which is in the process of moving there from their former home on Tonawanda Street in the Riverside section of the city.