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English: Panoramic view of the former German Roman Catholic Orphan Home (now the St. Martin Village apartments) as seen from Dodge Street between Norway Park and Linden Park, Buffalo, New York, April 2020. The fenestration is notable: graceful arched windows separated by brick pilasters and capped by keystone voussoirs testify to an elegant Romanesque Revival style. An institution rich with over a century of history; the German Catholic Orphan Home was founded by Father Joseph Helmpraecht of St. Mary's church on Broadway in response to an 1851-52 cholera epidemic that was spreading through the city and leaving many children orphaned; it was first run out of a wooden building near the church, then in 1874 it expanded and, with funding assistance from nine German Catholic churches around the city, moved to its current location on the former site of St. Mary's cemetery. The current buildings, erected after fire claimed their predecessors, date to 1919 (left) and 1927 (right). The orphanage closed in the 1970s and was later briefly used as a seminary and an education center before being abandoned; its current reuse as a subsidized apartment complex dates to 2011. |
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