![kimball organ 375 kimball organ 375](https://i0.wp.com/organhistoricalsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/OHSCitation.png)
![kimball organ 375 kimball organ 375](https://www.picclickimg.com/d/l400/pict/293051685395_/Kimball-Organ-Model-Series-370-Service-Manual-Schmatifcs.jpg)
Accordingly, it was named a Buffalo city landmark in 1977 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. Originally a mixed Irish and German congregation in a neighborhood then known as the Jammerthal ("valley of woe", so named for its rocky, impossible-to-cultivate soil), Blessed Trinity is most notable for its architecture, having been described as "the finest example of Lombard Romanesque architecture in North America", with multicolored brickwork, exquisite terra cotta ornamentation including 572 decorative corbels depicting "the vices, virtues, graces, sacraments and commandments of the Catholic faith", and an overall design inspired by Pavia Cathedral and the Church of St. Parish dissolved upon completion of new cathedral in 1915 with church building serving as its chapel reconstituted upon cathedral's demolition.
#KIMBALL ORGAN 375 WINDOWS#
Church is Gothic Revival in style and built of brick and Medina sandstone interior contains stained glass windows crafted in Innsbruck as well as a pair of altars imported from Italy one of marble salvaged from then-recently demolished Church of San Salvatore in Thermis, blessed in 590 AD by Pope Gregory the Great and containing a number of relics including pieces of the Holy Cross the other dating to the 17th century and sourced from the chapel of a church in Rome. Building was slated for a second expansion in 1912 when diocese announced plans to build new cathedral on adjacent lot, to accommodate which the building was lifted from its foundation and rolled 200 feet backward from its original position next to the street at the time the largest brick church in the U.S. Post (1908 enlargement)īegan as a chapel built in 1885 connected to new bishop's residence services held there were well attended especially by German-Americans from the nearby neighborhood of Cold Spring who had no nearby Catholic church to attend was made a parish in its own right two years later. Īdolphus Druiding (original structure) Albert A. John the Baptist parishes upon their 2007 dissolution as part of the "Journey in Faith and Grace" consolidation program, leaving Assumption the only remaining Catholic church in Black Rock. Became home to the congregations of the former St. The interior features a painted wood ceiling and original artwork by Hungarian-born artist József Varga, and is also the site of the earliest American examples of the sgraffito work of Polish-born muralist Józef Sławiński, executed in 1960.
![kimball organ 375 kimball organ 375](https://d3qvqlc701gzhm.cloudfront.net/thumbs/125c073f3eea174851cda9618fb7a9ee3db0d2d1d0a3c2daa187dd0e35277497-375.jpg)
Francis Xavier and for whom the established parishes of St. Ĭhronologically Buffalo's third Polish Catholic parish, Assumption was founded to serve the then-newly established Polish enclave in the eastern part of the Black Rock neighborhood, who felt unwelcome at the predominantly-German St. The church contains a 1923 Wurlitzer Organ gifted by Ellsworth Statler it had earlier been installed in the golden ballroom of the Hotel Statler in downtown Buffalo. Original church destroyed by fire in March 1913 services were held in the basement of the parochial school until the current Colonial Revival-style building was complete.