English: St. Leo the Great Roman Catholic Church, 885 Sweet Home Road, Amherst, New York, April 2022. Records are silent on the identity of the architect of this 1971 building, but it's a fairly impressive example of Modernist church design, with an unusual footprint in the shape of three overlapping diamonds, a tapered tower looming over the frontal portion facing Sweet Home Road, and a varied façade of tan brick contrasting with vertical slats of white corrugated siding. St. Leo traces its history as a parish back to 1953, when the Diocese of Buffalo purchased 20 acres of farmland in what was then a rapidly suburbanizing section of West Amherst on which to eventually build a church and school, as well as a small house on a neighboring lot (still extant at 803 Sweet Home Road) to serve as a temporary rectory for founding pastor Rev. Clatus Snyder. The parochial school opened in September 1954 after a few months of construction, complete with a chapel in the basement where Sunday Mass would be held for the following fourteen years. The ensuing years saw the completion of an expansion of the school (1958), the permanent rectory (1966), and finally the church itself.