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| Description | Christ the King Roman Catholic Church, Main Street at Lamarck Drive, Amherst, New York, April 2009. Dedicated on October 27, 1929 - the feast of Christ the King, hence the church's name - this is a design in which Dietel & Wade employ a Tudor Revival style that fits like a glove with the upscale, countrified, somewhat rustic aesthetic that characterized the overall architectural ambience of the neighborhood at the time, examples of which include pretty much any of the houses along the nearby side streets, not to mention the decorative stone walls, archways, and gatehouses that stand along Main Street at its intersections with said side streets (the corner of Main and Darwin itself being the site of the most elaborate example of the latter). It's a brilliant manifestation of the Tudor aesthetic, checking all the requisite boxes: a composite exterior comprising stone cladding, brick, and half-timbered stucco; an asymmetrical façade wherein the entrance is set off-center at the base of a stubby tower with crenellated parapet atop, which together embody the requisite bottom-heavy, sprawling massing; the trademark bluntly pointed arches and steeply pitched roof. The parish was founded in 1926 to serve the hamlet of Snyder, which was then in the full throes of its transition from rural crossroads to upscale streetcar suburb, and remains among the most vibrant in the Buffalo Diocese today. |
| Date | Taken on 10 April 2009 |
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| Author | TonyTheTiger |
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