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Delaware
Avenue Baptist Church
(1894) from old postcard |
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Buffalo Years |
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In 1892, Coxhead formed a partnership with W.W. Carlin of
Buffalo and moved his growing family to Buffalo. This partnership, like many others Coxhead
had had, was short-lived. In 1893
Carlin and Coxhead merged with C. Powell Karr, an architect in New York City,
but by December of that same year, the partnership was dissolved and each
architect went out on his own. Coxhead continued to practice in Buffalo on his own for
the next thirty years. While there, he
continued to design private homes, schools, churches and civic buildings, but
he also started designing stables for the more affluent Buffalo residents and
trend-setting hospitals as well.
Unfortunately, as is the case in St. Paul, most of Coxhead’s Buffalo
buildings were also razed decades ago. His most famous extant building in Buffalo is the Delaware
Avenue Baptist Church, built in 1894.
This Medina sandstone Richardsonian-Romanesque-styled church boasts a
narthex and baptistery made of over one million mosaic tiles. It was a popular destination during the Pan
American Exposition in 1901 and is designated a local landmark. Coxhead was an active member of this
church for his 31 years here and received the majority of his local
commissions through this affiliation, including, most likely, the Phoenix
Club commission. |