English: Home City Church, 86 Burlington Avenue at Houston Street, Depew, New York, June 2021. Erected in 1896, the design of this handsome brick church building embodies a vernacular adaptation of Gothic Revivalism that's toned down in the intricacy of its detail but has a freewheeling eclecticism that deceives the eye of those who fail to look closely: the small, round-arched rose window and oculus above the entrance both crib from the Romanesque, as does the stubby design of the multiple spires large and small on the main gable. The preponderance of pointed arches and emphasis on vertical lines, however, ultimately leave no room for mistake as regards the main stylistic influence. The building was constructed as the home of SS. Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Church, the first of the denomination to be founded in the then newly incorporated village of Depew, established by Buffalo bishop Stephen Ryan as the spiritual home of a Polish-American populace that had been attracted to the village by easily available jobs on the railroads (a total of three separate lines, running roughly parallel to each other, pass through town) and in ancillary businesses such as the National Car Wheel Works, the Gould Coupler Works, and the Union Car Company. Soon enough, explosive population growth required the subdivision of the parish, with St. James and St. Augustine both cleaved off its territory within the next dozen years. SS. Peter & Paul would remain predominantly Polish in ethnic constitution for the entirety of its existence, which ended in 2009 with its merger with Our Lady of Pompeii in Lancaster under the auspices of the "Journey in Faith and Grace" diocesan consolidation program. Fears over the future of the building were allayed in 2011 when the diocese sold it at auction to Dr. Anthony Francis, who hoped to house a group home for foster children there; ultimately, however, the property was sold again in 2015 to become the home of Home City Church, a nondenominational congregation led by Dr. David & Ruth Shamenda, a husband-and-wife pastoral team hailing from Zambia and Zimbabwe respectively, whose aim is to minister to its congregants and the community at large "through meaningful relationships, spirit-led worship, service to others, and solid Biblical truth in a multicultural context".