Lancaster is a village in Erie County, New York, United States.

The Lancaster Opera House is locally famous for its musicals and stage plays.

Lancaster is the third oldest incorporated village in Erie County, behind Springville and Gowanda.

The Lancaster Presbyterian Church is the second oldest religious structure in Erie County, built in 1832.

Catholic churches include St. Mary of the Assumption and Our Lady of Pompeii.

This building is still the main focus of the downtown Lancaster area because of its massive size and its clock tower.

This leads people to call the building both the Opera House and Town Hall.

However, today very few businesses are located on the street due to its demolition in the early 1970s.

The trolley then continued into the connecting village of Depew, where Sawyer Avenue turned into Main Street.

St. John Neumann played a big part in the building of the church and school.

The village's northern boundary is Walden Avenue, the eastern edge is Walter Winter Road, and the southern edge is the northern boundary of the former Buffalo Creek Indian Reservation.

[4] Central Avenue in the downtown area is the busiest street in the village, along with Broadway.

The lighthouse in Como Lake Park on Cayuga Creek is a place for people of many ages to gather.

Lancaster Town Hall, also known as the Opera House, is located on Central Avenue.

Broadway has the oldest trees, while Burwell and Sawyer avenues are the widest residential streets.

32.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 15.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

A small southwestern part of the village is in the Depew Union Free School District.