BlockBefore

St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church Complex

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1894.

From the record

One of 283 National Register listings published here for Erie County · listed in 2022 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 2930 Delaware Ave, 45 Victoria Blvd., Kenmore, 14217
  • When was it listed? July 2022
  • Category. building
  • Town. Tonawanda town
  • National Register reference number. 100007890 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1894 to 1960

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 66 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church Complex, surveyed 1960
Topographic sheet covering St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church Complex, surveyed 1894

Fires near this property

727 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 727 fires within 5 miles of St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church Complex between 2000 and 2020, burning about 316 acres in total. 112 started naturally. 66 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined407
Natural112
Smoking77
Arson/incendiarism66
Equipment and vehicle use25
Debris and open burning23
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
7 September 2016Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA

Every fire recorded in Erie County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church Complex: 3 unknowns, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Gold, Perlite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Buffalo Perlite PlantPerlitePlant
Williams Gold Refin./ Buffalo, N.Y.GoldUnknown
Hanna Furnace Corp/ Buffalo, N.Y.IronUnknown
Republic Steel/ Buffalo, N.Y.IronUnknown

Every working recorded in Erie County

Storms near this property

25 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kenmore, the town this property stands in, in 25 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 15 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 hail, 2 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2013FloodKenmore$150,000no account filed
July 2006Flash FloodKenmore$100,000no account filed
June 2008HailKenmore$50,000no account filed
April 1993Thunderstorm WindKenmore$50,000no account filed
July 2016LightningKenmore$30,000no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindKenmore$25,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindKenmore$15,000no account filed
September 1997Thunderstorm WindKenmore$15,000no account filed
August 2019Flash FloodKenmore$10,000Route 324 was closed due to high water from Colvin Boulevard to Belmont Avenue.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindKenmore$10,000The media reported trees down on Stilwell Avenue.
September 2009Thunderstorm WindKenmore$10,000Law enforecment reported trees and wires down on Oxford Avenue.
September 2009Thunderstorm WindKenmore$10,000Law enforecment reported trees and wires down on Tremont Avenue.
May 2017FloodKenmore$10,000no account filed
January 2008Thunderstorm WindKenmore$10,000no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindKenmore$10,000no account filed
July 1997HailKenmore$8,000no account filed
July 2021Thunderstorm WindKenmore$5,000A large tree branch fell on and damaged a call on Treadwell Road.
August 2019Flash FloodKenmore$5,000Niagara Falls Boulevard was closed from Alameda Avenue to Maple Road due to flooding.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindKenmore$2,000Trees and wires were downed in the City of Buffalo on Taunton Place.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindKenmore$1,000Several trees were downed in the City of Buffalo on Parker Ave.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindKenmore$1,000Trees were reported down on Frontenac Street.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindKenmore$1,000Trees were reported downed in Emlawn Memorial Park.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindKenmore$500A tree was downed onto Westchester Boulevard.
July 2021Heavy RainKenmore-A six hour rainfall report was received.
August 2019Heavy RainKenmore-Heavy rain of 2.51 inches was reported in 60-90 minutes.

Every storm recorded in Erie County

Maps showing this location

11 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Tonawanda Municipal Building0.1 miles2013
Eberhardt Mansion0.3 miles1983
North Park Branch Library1.1 miles2018
Wood and Brooks Company Factory Complex1.2 miles2023
American Radiator Company Factory Complex1.3 miles2015
Houk Manufacturing Co.1.4 miles2014

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100007890 in Record Group 79.
Erie CountyAll 283 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.