English: Kidder Memorial United Methodist Church, 381 South Main Street at Cole Avenue, Jamestown, New York, January 2023. Completed in 1929 to a design by Dayton, Ohio architect Wilbur R. Herby, the $35,000 construction process of the church was described by Bishop A. R. Clippinger as having been undertaken "at minimum cost... so that the congregation of the church [was] not overburdened with debt." This shows in the relative simplicity and restrained ornamentation in its nonetheless handsome design, a fairly typical example of the Gothic Revival style popular in the era's ecclesiastical architecture. The façade is centered on an enormous stained glass window crowned consecutively with a pointed arch and a parapet gable, with a pair of interesting stepped buttresses on either side. The 520-capacity interior was originally lit not only by the stained glass windows but also a set of "specially built old English bronze lanterns". In addition to the sanctuary, the interior comprised classroom space, a kitchen, pastor's study, and interestingly, also a "nursery, or mother's room, with a masonry wall twelve inches thick and of practically soundproof construction" such that services would not be interrupted by crying children. What was originally called Kidder Memorial United Brethren Church traces its history back to Easter Sunday 1906, when local farmer Samuel Kidder invited fourteen of his neighbors to his home on South Main Street for the first of what would eventually become a weekly schedule of informal Sunday school classes. The following year, Kidder erected a purpose-built chapel on his farm to house the increasingly popular meetings, and then in May 1915, with the hiring of Rev. A. L. Pang as pastor, the church was formally constituted. The chapel was moved off the Kidder farm to the corner of South Main Street and Cole Avenue in 1919, was converted to a parsonage when the present-day sanctuary next door was dedicated in 1929, and stood until 1964, when it was razed to make way for an Educational Unit containing eighteen Sunday school classrooms, a fellowship hall with a modern kitchen, and a small chapel. The church took on its present name in 1968, when the Evangelical United Brethren denomination merged into the United Methodist Church.