English: St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church, 46 North Main Street, Holland, New York, March 2021. The most eye-catching feature of the Neo-Expressionist design of this striking building - the work of the Buffalo-based architect Gerard Zimmermann, whose repertoire of Southern Tier Modernist Catholic churches also includes St. Philomena's in Franklinville - is the roof, whose sweeping lines (echoed by those in the matching oversized portico) are reminiscent of praying hands. Arts & Crafts influences are notable, too, coming in the form of board-and-batten siding, an earth-tone color scheme furnished by the dark wooden roof and the brick exterior walls on the side elevations, and the overhanging eaves with exposed rafter tails. Though the current church building was erected in 1968, St. Joseph's history as a congregation stretches back over a century further, to the foundation by Irish-born John and Joseph Cottrell of the Sardinia or Pratham Mission Church, located about seven miles southwest of the present-day Village of Holland. Beginning in 1865 and continuing for about twenty years later, pastors passing through town from Boston, Spring Brook and elsewhere would say Mass about once a month for the two dozen or so Catholic families in the area; after that, the congregation moved to a proper building in the center of Holland, and services became more frequent: two Masses a month were said by preachers from East Aurora and, later, Arcade. In 1924 - six years after the original mission church burned down in a fire of unknown cause - St. Joseph became a parish in its own right, worshiping in a converted private residence that was razed and superseded by the current building located on the same site.