English: Trinity United Methodist Church, 711 Niagara Falls Boulevard, Amherst, New York, March 2022. Typifying the Modernist aesthetic that began to appear in Western New York church architecture in the years after World War II, Trinity Methodist consists of an H-shaped set of buildings constructed in two separate stages: the modern-day fellowship hall at right and the corridor in the middle date to the building's initial dedication in February 1955, which occurred after a donation of land by the local Methodist Church Extension Society and a nearly year-long, $150,000 construction process. The sanctuary at left followed in 1960. The two main components are unified by a common design that incorporates laminated barrel-vaulted arches at the roof and exterior walls liberally occupied with windows, so as to embrace "a closer tie with nature and the Creator," according to architect John Y. Sloan of Sloan & Schneider. The interior is finished in red cedar and white birch and is warmed with radiant heating. Trinity Methodist Church was founded in 1921 as a merger of the Linwood Avenue and Northampton Street Methodist Episcopal Churches of Buffalo, New York, whose own histories traced back to 1878 and 1885 respectively. Their original building in the Cold Spring section of that neighboring city is now home to Lincoln Memorial Methodist Church.