English: The Church of Jesus Christ, 1980 Bailey Avenue at Hazel Place, Buffalo, New York, November 2021. Built in 1893 to a design by local architect William H. Archer, this low-slung, sprawling, interestingly towerless church is a paragon of the English Gothic Revival style that was becoming increasingly popular in the era. Modern vinyl siding now covers what was originally a not altogether dissimilar regime of shingle siding, with the requisite steeply-pitched gables and pointed-arched windows on the façade but otherwise boasting sparse ornamentation and a rough-hewn, countrified look both inside and out. Founded in 1891, St. Stephen's was one of five present or former mission congregations to have been established over the past sixteen years in various parts of the city by the Rev. Charles H. Smith of the no-longer-extant St. James Episcopal Church on the Near East Side. The so-called "Walden Avenue Mission" became a parish in its own right in 1898, and continued worshiping in this building until 1952, when they purchased a plot of land in the Kensington-Bailey section of the city where many of the congregants were now living. (Now called St. Michael and All Angels, the church remains in existence there today). Subsequent owners include the Spiritualist Church of the Eternal Brotherhood, who occupied the space from the early 1950s until at least the early 1990s, and the Church of Jesus Christ, a non-denominational African-American congregation who purchased the property in 1996 and remain there today.