English: The former Highland Masonic Lodge No. 835, 2456 Main Street, Buffalo, New York, November 2020. Designed by architect William Sydney Wicks - the junior and much less prolific partner in the local firm of Green & Wicks - the building's cornerstone was laid in 1903, and it was completed and ready for occupancy two years later. In conformity with both the stylistic trends of the era and the favored tropes of Masonic architecture, the building is resolutely Neoclassical in design, faced in rough-textured, irregularly-coursed, locally-quarried Onondaga limestone and with a façade consisting of a pair of projecting end bays framing a recessed central portion wherein a pair of Ionic columns flanks a large multi-light window with a projecting stone entrance vestibule below. Above are found a shallow-pitched pediment flush with the roof gable, sitting atop a frieze; both are bedecked with modillions and dentils. The lateral elevations are much less detailed, containing not much more than two pairs of windows oriented vertically with plain white spandrel panels between. The building served as a Masonic temple for most of the 20th century; by the 1930s the Highland Lodge had begun sharing the space with a steadily growing roster of other fraternal organizations, including the Levant, Lakeland, and Mystic Art Masonic lodges as well as local chapters of the Order of the Amaranth, Order of the Eastern Star, and the Knights Templar. After the building's 1997 sale to the adjacent Central Presbyterian Church, it's filled a rapidly shifting variety of functions for a revolving door of different owners: after spending ten years as Central Presbyterian's community center, it served a short stint (2007-2011) as the final home to Mount St. Joseph Academy, a longstanding Catholic high school lately suffering from dwindling enrollment, and then from 2013 to 2019 as part of the campus of the now-defunct Aloma D. Johnson Charter School. It's now vacant.