English: Unity Missionary Baptist Church, 183 Sycamore Street at Spruce Street, Buffalo, New York, January 2021. The work of an unknown architect, this 1879-vintage brick church belongs to the Gothic Revival style of architecture, but you can see in the details quite a few references to contemporaneously popular Romanesque Revivalism as well: though the pointed arches, slender windows with prominent hoods, and supporting buttresses typical of the former abound, raking corbel tables and an overall stout, ponderous massing recall the latter. The building began its life as home to the First Evangelical Church, which traced its history to its foundation in 1837 as the Buffalo scion of the vigorously evangelistic Albright Movement, which had come to seek converts among the burgeoning German immigrant community on the East Side of the city, and was led initially by Rev. Joseph Harlacher, the disaffected former pastor of St. Peter's Evangelical Church on Genesee Street. The building seen here was the third to house the congregation, and did so until 1945, when the church "discontinued its work among an underprivileged people in a congested downtown area with regret", selling the property to St. John Baptist Church who worshipped there until moving into its current building twenty-two years later. Unity Missionary Baptist Church, the third owner of the building, has been operational since 1967.