Asbury Delaware Avenue Methodist Church (Babeville), Delaware Avenue and Tupper Street, Buffalo, NY : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Asbury Delaware Avenue Methodist Church (Babeville), Delaware Avenue and Tupper Street, Buffalo, NY / w_lemay
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| 説明 | Built in 1876, this Gothic Revival-style church was designed by John H. Selkirk as his last commission, and constructed to house the congregation of Delaware Avenue Methodist Church, which merged with Asbury Methodist Church in 1917, forming the Asbury Delaware Avenue Methodist Church. The congregation folded in 1969, owing to demographic shifts within the city and surrounding neighborhood, eventually falling into a state of serious disrepair, with the city of Buffalo proposing its demolition in 1995, with preservation groups fiercely opposing the demolition and actively working to find a new use for the derelict building, leading to the church being purchased by Righteous Babe Records, a record label, in 1999 and rehabilitated between 2000 and 2006 to house Babeville, the recording studio of the record label, as well as a 1,200-seat concert venue in part of the former sanctuary. As part of the adaptive reuse project, the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003, allowing the project to access tax credits and other financial incentives.The church features a rusticated medina sandstone exterior with a latin cross layout, gabled roof, two towers of different heights at the corners of the front facade, gable parapets, multiple pinnacles, buttresses ,gothic arched stained glass windows with tracery, stone spires, a large belfry in the north tower that originally contained multiple bells, a smaller berry in the south tower, and carved wooden panel doors. The interior of the sanctuary features a roof with decorative carved wooden trusses, Gothic Revival-style wooden paneling, decorative Gothic Revival-style ceiling light fixtures, a second-story balcony that wraps around the perimeter of the space, with a higher balcony at the front facade of the building, wood floors, decorative trim at the windows, and a proscenium arch with decorative trim at the former location of the altar, which is now a stage. The building continues to serve as an event and concert venue, with recording studios in the east wing of the building, with a large glass-enclosed stairway on the exterior of the south facade of the east wing being the only significant change to the restored exterior. |
| 撮影日 | 2022-08-13 17:52:28 |
| 撮影者 | w_lemay , Chicago, IL, United States |
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| 撮影地 | Buffalo, New York, United States 地図 |