English: St. Bernard Roman Catholic Church, 1990 Clinton Street at South Ogden Street, Buffalo, New York, May 2020. Built of Ohio sandstone accented with Indiana limestone trim and sporting the signature simplified English Gothic style of architect Mortimer Murphy, the church boasts some fairly intricate tracery in the large stained-glass window facing Clinton Street, a stout bell tower with a crenellated parapet at the top, louvered windows below with bluntly pointed Gothic arches, and smaller windows toward the bottom framed by Gibbs surrounds. The area of town centered on the corner of Clinton and Ogden was long home to a small Polish-American community who worshipped at St. Casimir's, but beginning around the turn of the century, the Poles began to be outnumbered by Germans, and the neighborhood took on the name Kaisertown; St. Bernard's was founded in 1907 as the neighborhood's German-language parish. Their original church and school building was replaced by the current one in 1954. In 2011, as part of the Buffalo diocese's "Journey in Faith and Grace" consolidation program, it was announced that both the St. Bernard and St. Casimir parishes would dissolve and the congregations would fold into Our Lady of Czestochowa in ; however, after filing an appeal, Bishop Edward Kmiec later reversed himself and decided that St. Bernard could stay open on an interim basis and absorb the congregation of St. Casimir, pending an improvement in the church's financial situation. However, in 2015, citing a shortage of priests, the diocese announced that St. Bernard and Our Lady of Czestochowa would be "linked", remaining independent parishes but sharing the same pastor.