English: Good Shepherd Community of Faith, 187 Southside Parkway, Buffalo, New York, June 2022. Built in 1926 to a design by the locally-based architectural firm of North, Shelgren & Swift, this handsome brick church is an exception to the usual Colonial Revival stylistic rule owing to the asymmetry of its façade, with an L-shaped floor plan comprising a side-gabled north wing at left (this was formerly a school), the front-gabled sanctuary portion at right, and a stout tower in between. The latter two are the more architecturally interesting elements: the sanctuary boasts a large Palladian window (unfortunately mostly replaced with glass block) flanked by a pair of Doric pilaster strips, and the tower is modeled after that of the Bruton Parish Church in Williamsburg, Virginia (the contemporaneous, well-publicized restoration of that city's 17th- and 18th-century building stock being the main impetus for the popularity of the Colonial Revival style at the time). A main entrance at the base of the tower is crowned consecutively by a fanlight with characteristic spiderweb muntins, a simple entablature, and a segmental pediment, while atop is a small oculus window studded with a quartet of keystones. The erstwhile South Park Baptist Church traces its history back to 1887, when the Buffalo Baptist Union began hosting Sunday school classes in a rented space at the corner of South Park and Good Avenues to minister to the residents of what was then a still-semirural but rapidly urbanizing section of town. Inaugurated as a full-fledged church four years later, they built their first home on the same corner before moving here. In 1990, the congregation renamed itself Good Shepherd Baptist Church. Another renaming, to Good Shepherd Community of Faith, followed in 2017.