Unitarian Universalist Church of Buffalo
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First Unitarian Church of Buffalo
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Unitarian Universalist Church of Buffalo, June 2011
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| Location | 695 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, New York |
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| Coordinates | 42°54′56″N 78°52′35″W / 42.91556°N 78.87639°WCoordinates: 42°54′56″N 78°52′35″W / 42.91556°N 78.87639°W |
| Area | .53 acres (0.21 ha) |
| Built | 1904-1906 |
| Architect | Edward Austin Kent |
| Architectural style | English Gothic |
| NRHP Reference # | 15000367 |
| Added to NRHP | June 30, 2015 |
The Unitarian Universalist Church of Buffalo is a historic church complex located at 695 Elmwood Avenue, in Buffalo, New York. The building was designed by architect Edward Austin Kent in 1906. Kent died in 1912 aboard the RMS Titanic and a memorial plaque is located in the church honoring him.
The congregation is currently associated with the Unitarian Universalist Association. The church building was originally called the First Unitarian Church of Buffalo when the congregation was Unitarian in theology. In 1953, the congregation joined with the Universalist Church of the Messiah and began worshiping together as the Unitarian Universalist Church of Buffalo. The two denominations merged nationally in 1961.
The sanctuary and building was completed in 1906 on land donated by John J. Albright, who built the Albright–Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, NY completed in 1905. In 1908, Col. Charles Clifton paid the remaining $25,000 of the mortgage on the church building on the condition that the pews would be forever free. The church is designed in a Gothic Revival style with walls and tracery in the arched windows of Indiana limestone, a crenelated turret, and oak doors decorated with wrought-iron fleur-de-lis. The interior of the church is English Country Gothic in style. The sanctuary has seating for 400 and features a great oak hammer beam ceiling soaring from stone corbels about ten feet above the floor.
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