2004-10-30 - [Was this bldg. a Lutheran or Evangelical & Reformed church, possibly Emmanuel's, which had a 2-13, 1906 Hinners?] -Database Manager
2006-12-30 - Updated through online information from David Snyder. -- Originally St. Paul's Evangelical Church. New sanctuary has been built, old one serves as community room. Organ unused, but extant in 1990s. -Database Manager
2024-08-20 - A December 19, 2023 article on the 'Buffalo Rising' website states, "Overseer/Pastor Michael Chapman of Gethsemane and St. John Baptist Church (Two Churches, Two Campuses, One Village) and his wife, Minister Ina Chapman donated $250,000 from WECGOD II (We Educate Communities Globally on Disparities) to the renovation fund of the Gethsemane Missionary Baptist Church during a press conference Friday morning in front of the oldest, historical preservation site in the Fruit Belt on Grape Street." "Opened in 1874, this $1.4 million restoration project was prepared by the Clinton Brown Company Architecture, PC of Buffalo, known for its renewing of historic buildings and heritage places." “We will use our donation to begin discussions with local foundations to match it or do more to help us complete this restoration, which we believe will help us restore that community,” Pastor Chapman said. “We plan to begin the renovation in the spring, and it will include a renovation of the original sanctuary, the parsonage, kitchen, cafeteria and restoring the original pipe organ.” -Jim Stettner
2024-08-20 - From notes with a Wikimedia image, "The Evangelical congregation vacated the building in 1963, whereupon it began the second and more prominent phase of its history, as Gethsemane Missionary Baptist Church, whose pastor, Rev. Herbert V. Reid, transformed it into a local nexus for the Civil Rights Movement second only to the Michigan Street Baptist Church. The building was named a City of Buffalo landmark in 2019." -Jim Stettner
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