English: The Roman Catholic Church of the Nativity, 228 Albany Street at Herkimer Street, Buffalo, New York, January 2020. Founded in 1898 due to the rapid population growth of the surrounding neighborhood, the church seen here was built in 1901 after the small frame church heretofore located a block north quickly proved too small and cramped for the use of an expanding congregation. The "Gothic exuberance" (to borrow James Napora's words from Houses of Worship: A Guide to the Religious Architecture of Buffalo, New York) of architect Albert Post's design is best exemplified by the trefoil-patterned tracery in the windows above the front entrances, matched as you can see by quatrefoils in the larger windows further up the façade. The church was closed in 2009 as part of the Buffalo Catholic Diocese's "Journey in Faith and Grace" program of parish consolidation, and, along with Our Lady of Loretto on 15th Street, the congregation was folded into that of Annunciation R.C. Church and given the new name Our Lady of Hope. The merged parish is still located at the home of the latter antecedent church at the corner of Grant Street and Lafayette Avenue.