Historic church sells for $2 million in Buffalo, New York

A historic West Side church and rectory have been acquired by a local medical practice, with the goal of retaining the property and its uses in their respective current forms.

Albany Herkimer Campus LLC – a subsidiary of WNY Medical – paid $2 million for the Roman Catholic Church of the Nativity and its adjoining rectory. The deal closed on May 3, according to documents filed with the Erie County Clerk’s Office.

Catholic Charities of Buffalo NY has sold the property at 220-228 Albany St. and 91 California St. on the city’s Lower West Side.

Rose Caldwell, communications manager for Catholic Charities, confirmed the sale.
“We didn’t need to maintain ownership of the property,” Caldwell said.

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WNY Medical has a clinic in the church and will continue to operate the clinic out of the 26,000 square foot complex dating to circa 1901.

Catholic Charities will remain at the rectory, where it operates a series of immigration and refugee services offices.