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English: The Lofts at Warwick, 700 Parkside Avenue, Buffalo, New York, May 2021. Here architect Frank Spangenberg brings to the table a fairly typical example of early-20th century American church architecture, with all the usual hallmarks of Late Gothic Revivalism present and accounted for: enormous stained-glass window dominating the front façade; spireless corner tower with paired louvered windows; ubiquitous stepped buttresses, some topped with gablets; a motif of bluntly pointed arches; overall squat massing. One of the earliest examples in Buffalo of the growing trend of deconsecrated churches reused for residential purposes, the building began its life in 1923 as the second home of North Park Presbyterian Church, into which the then seven-year-old congregation moved after vacating their former home on Saranac Avenue (now home to the Jewish Congregation Achei T'mimim). The earliest Presbyterian congregation in this part of Buffalo, North Park Presbyterian traces its history to the very beginning of the urbanization process in the neighborhood that shares its name, founded by a fledgling group of fifty-three pioneers frustrated at the long distance to the established churches downtown. After a shaky first few years - membership dwindled after the end of World War I, when many of the workers in the nearby factories found themselves unemployed and moved elsewhere - growth began in earnest around 1920, hence the move to these larger quarters in which the congregation uneventfully passed the next eighty-six years of their existence. North Park Presbyterian dissolved in 2006 due to changing demographics and the overall secularization of early-21st century American society, and the conversion to loft apartments was underway by 2010, overseen by Creative Structures Services.