{"id":1382,"date":"2008-02-11T11:10:23","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T15:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2008\/02\/11\/st-anns-may-become-a-religious-artifact-museum\/"},"modified":"2008-02-11T11:11:50","modified_gmt":"2008-02-11T15:11:50","slug":"st-anns-may-become-a-religious-artifact-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2008\/02\/st-anns-may-become-a-religious-artifact-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Ann&#8217;s May Become a Religious Artifact Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From today\u2019s Buffalo News\u00a0by Jay Tokasz:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1383\" href=\"http:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2008\/02\/11\/st-anns-may-become-a-religious-artifact-museum\/bnjpg\/\" title=\"bn.jpg\"><\/a><\/strong><strong><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1383\" href=\"http:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2008\/02\/11\/st-anns-may-become-a-religious-artifact-museum\/bnjpg\/\" title=\"bn.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/bn.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"bn.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Churches may become museum<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Preservationists, including some who helped rescue Frank Lloyd Wright\u2019s Graycliff estate in Derby from demolition, have set their sights on saving two Catholic churches.<\/p>\n<p>The group plans to buy St. Ann Church, a soaring Gothic Revival structure built in 1886 at Broadway and Emslie Street, and St. Francis Xavier Church, a basilica-style building constructed in 1913 on East Street near Amherst Street in Black Rock, and turn the properties into a museum for religious art and artifacts.<\/p>\n<p>Religious objects such as altars, stained-glass windows and statues will be collected from many of the other churches that have closed or are scheduled to close under the downsizing plan for the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo and displayed at St. Ann and St. Francis Xavier, according to members of the group, known as the Buffalo Religious Arts Center.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read the whole story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffalonews.com\/home\/story\/273496.html\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From today\u2019s Buffalo News\u00a0by Jay Tokasz: Churches may become museum Preservationists, including some who helped rescue Frank Lloyd Wright\u2019s Graycliff estate in Derby from demolition,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Wcy1-mi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}