St. John's Grace Episcopal Church - Table of Contents

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Art Deco eagle above main entrance	Main entrance
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Status: Buffalo Official Landmark

Erected: 1927 (See also: Highlights of Buffalo's History, 1927)

Style: English Perpendicular Gothic / Art Deco

Architects: Mayers, Murray and Philip of New York, who were to have been associated in the project with famed architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue (1869-1924).

Goodhue had been a partner in the prestigious firm of Cram, Goodhue and Ferguson. Headed by Ralph Adams Cram, this group had become the greatest Gothic-Revival designers of the twentieth century. As evident in St. John's Grace, Goodhue's distinctive ecclesiastical style was Gothic in form but permeated with a modern spirit.

Unfortunately, Goodhue died before the actual work on the church began.

Stained Glass Windows: J. Gordon Guthrie of New York City

Architectural Features: St. John's-Grace is English Perpendicular Gothic with an unusual floor plan that includes only one side aisle, on the north, and an arcade and clerestory with long perpendicular windows on the south side.

Special features include handsome stained-glass windows by J. Gordon Guthrie of New York City and a polychromed ceiling.

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Source: "Church Tales of the Niagara Frontier," by Austin M. Fox