English: Calvary Full Gospel Church, 66 Somerton Avenue at Grammercy Place, Kenmore, New York, January 2023. The core portion of the building seen here was built about 1915, probably as a model home for Franklin Land & Improvement Company's Kenmore Estates subdivision at the far northern end of the incorporated village. It was eventually offered for sale, but there is no record of any resident or owner before 1931, when it was purchased by St. Mark's Lutheran Church. Organized in 1927 as a mission for the Lutheran residents in the outskirts of the village, they had initially held services first in a variety of rented locations - the village hall; the local YWCA - before converting this building for their use, installing a chapel on the first floor parlor in Sunday school classrooms and what were once the upstairs bedrooms. The congregation at that time was small but growing explosively - the membership count of 84 at the time of the buildings dedication was double what it had been just a year previous - and it was already understood that future growth would eventually necessitate a larger, purpose-built church building. The Great Depression and the Second World War forestalled any new construction temporarily, but once those twin catastrophes were safely in the rearview mirror, planning began anew and in October 1948, ground was broken on a $70,000 structure east of here on Delaware Road. The Somerton Avenue building then passed into the hands of Kenmore Alliance Church, a Keswickian Evangelical congregation that owned the place until 1984 and remains active in their present home just north of Elmlawn Cemetery. Calvary Full Gospel Church, another Evangelical congregation, occupies the space today.