English: The former St. Agatha RC Church, 65 Abbott Road at Good Avenue, Buffalo, New York, May 2020. The austere and decidedly non-churchlike aesthetic to the building comes from the fact that the parish was traditionally small, and did not have the need for, nor the financial resources to support the construction and maintenance of, a large and extravagant church such as many in Buffalo had at the time. Founded in 1909 to serve a small Italian-American community that had coalesced in the western part of the Triangle neighborhood near the railroads where many of the family patriarchs worked, the parish was originally called All Souls and met in a small frame building at the corner of Germania and Mystic streets; the building suffered damage in June 1920 when the floor caved in under the weight of the parishioners at a particularly well-attended Sunday Mass, whereupon the congregation was temporarily disbanded pending repairs. The church took on its current name when it was reopened the following year. That building was superseded in 1956 by that seen here, one of the last remaining combination church/school buildings in the city at the time of the parish's 2010 merger with St. Ambrose and Holy Family as part of the Buffalo Diocese's "Journey in Faith and Grace" consolidation program. The Holy Family held Mass variously in the other two buildings and initially used the St. Agatha complex for office space and also to house a Head Start education center; however, in 2018, they sold the building to local developer Sam Savarino; as of 2018, possible redevelopment ideas for the property include apartments, offices, an educational service, or an arts-based function.