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English: Charity Baptist Church, 350 Austin Street, Buffalo, New York, July 2020. Dating to 1912, the building's simplified and rather unusual design is the work of architect John H. Coxhead; stylistically, its Arts and Crafts influences make themselves known generally in subtle ways, though you can see them relatively prominently in the stout tower on the east side of the building, whose shallow-pitched hip roof sports widely overhanging eaves supported with brackets. The shingle siding on the tower, though in rough shape, is a welcome look at the church's original appearance vis-à-vis the unfortunate addition of modern vinyl siding on the main building. The stained glass window on the façade is contained within a round arch. In the early 20th century, the Black Rock neighborhood was the nucleus of the Buffalo area's Hungarian-American community, and it was in 1909 when Reverend Joseph Palmay of the First German Baptist Church on Spruce Street began conducting missionary work among them. The congregation he put together worshiped here until their move to Grand Island in 1985 (by which time they had become known as the Austin Street Baptist Church, a reflection of the ethnic diversification of the congregation in the previous decades); its current occupant, another Baptist congregation, has owned the building since 1991.