English: Bethel Lutheran Church, 906 West 3rd Street at Catlin Avenue, Jamestown, New York, January 2021. Built in 1929 mostly in accordance with a design by noted local architect Raymond Freeburg (the arcaded "office-study unit" and Tudor Revival-style parish house he'd intended for the west side of the property, in the left background from the perspective of this photo, were never built), the church is a good example of Late Gothic Revival ecclesiastical architecture, owing a particular debt to English Gothicism as was the rule in the era. As usual with the style, the main façade is utterly dominated by an enormous, pointed-arched, hood-molded stained glass window whose simple rectangular tracery stands in stark contrast to the more elaborate, and more typically Gothic, geometric and quatrefoil designs in the lateral windows. Below the main window lies the compound-arched entrance, while above is a parapet gable adorned with a decorative stone panel with drip molding; ubiquitous on the façade are stone-capped engaged buttresses (which rise to delicate pinnacles in the case of those on the stout square tower). Note also that the Gothic-arched windows in the tower, once rivaling the main window in prominence, were removed in about 2013. In addition to its architectural importance, Bethel was also an instrumental factor in the development of the west side neighborhoods of Jamestown: a 1923 survey of what residents yet lived in the then still semirural area, undertaken by Rev. Carl Bomgren of the Bethlehem Lutheran Church in the nearby village of Falconer, revealed a great deal of enthusiasm for the idea of establishing a new Lutheran congregation that would be located closer to their homes than the downtown churches they then attended. Bethel's original building, a modest wood-framed chapel, was built in 1925 but carted away to a new location in Cleveland, Ohio four years later, at the dedication of the present building.