St. Paul's - Table of Contents

2002 Photos
Main and Church Street Elevations

St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral
139 Pearl Street, Buffalo, NY

Built:
1851
Architect:
Richard Upjohn
Style:
English Gothic Revival
Fire:
1888
Reconstruction finished:
1890
Recontruction architect: Robert W. Gibson
Status:
National Historic Landmark (1987)

The Medina sandstone used for the church was quarried in the hamlet of Hulberton, east of Medina.

In 2005, three outdoor stairways and support walls, two on the church's main entrance on Pearl Street and one on Cathedral Street, were dismantled and reassembled and new foundations built. For the 2005 repairs to blend with the old stone, sandstone from Scotland and Germany was chosen.


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Site Plan

Guaranty Building on the right

Richard Upjohn..... Gothic Revival

East window

Looking east toward Main St.

One of three entrances

Lancet windows in bay.

Two of three Church St. entrances

Lancet windows.

Compound arch

Left: Pier buttresses

Modillions

The third Church St. entrance

 

Buttresses

Corbel table

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Trinity Church, New York City -
Upjohn's most famous church.

Pinnacles with finials

Pinnacle




Photos and their arrangement © 2002 Chuck LaChiusa
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