English: St. Patrick's Episcopal Church, 1395 George Urban Boulevard, Cheektowaga, New York, November 2022. A work of the Buffalo-based architectural practice of Shelgren, Patterson & Marzec, the design of the church combines the angular boxiness of Modernism with some elements that can almost be read as Deco or Moderne influences: note the sleek vertical lines (most notable on the stubby central tower), highly stylized Classical decorative flourishes (e.g. the paired brick pilaster strips on the side elevation), and glass-block windows. Like many congregations of similar age in neighboring areas, St. Patrick's was founded in response to the concurrent mass migration of middle-class families, in Buffalo as elsewhere in America, out of the inner cities and into the suburbs. The foundation of the church as a mission to its rapidly growing central Cheektowaga neighborhood was announced by Western New York's Episcopal bishop, Lauriston L. Scaife, on March 17, 1957, hence its name. The congregation worshipped for eleven years in a prefabricated Quonset hut on this site pending the construction of the present building, a process which began in 1967 and lasted about a year. The church hall seen at right was constructed in 1976 to replace the original which had been lost to fire two years prior.