by [email protected] | Dec 12, 2021 | 1900 – 1940
H. Tracy Balcom House 1193 Delaware Ave architect: Charles A. Platt years built: 1913 This house represents the best of early twenthieth century design in the McKim, Mead and White tradition. Carefully symmetrical in composition, restrained in detail but flat as an...
by [email protected] | Dec 12, 2021 | 1900 – 1940
Stephen M. Clement House 786 Delaware Ave architect: Edward B. Green years built: 1913 An alternative to the academic Classical manner of McKim, Mead, and White popular in the early twenthieth century, was an equally academic and archeological style based on the...
by [email protected] | Dec 12, 2021 | 1900 – 1940
Larkin Company Warehouse 726 Exchange Street architect: Lockwood, Greene, & Company owner: Larkin Soap Company (1913)Graphic Controls (1967)Cityview Properties (2002)Taurus Partners First Niagara Financial Group (2009) years built: 1913 demolished: N/A While the...
by [email protected] | Dec 12, 2021 | 1900 – 1940
Buffalo Zoo Parkside Avenue, Delaware Park architect: Esenwein and Johnson (Elephant House)Henry Fruaff & Roeder Kinkel (Outdoor Shelters)John Edmonson Brent (Entry Gates and other Facilities) owner: Buffalo Zoo years built:19121940 demolished: N/A One of the best...
by [email protected] | Dec 12, 2021 | 1900 – 1940
W.T. Grant Company Main, Huron, Pearl Streets architect: Alfred S. Alschuler and Raymond Loewy owner: Grant’s years built: 1939 demolished: 1980 The inspiration of industrial architecture is even more evident in this department store. The contrast with Green and...
by [email protected] | Dec 12, 2021 | 1900 – 1940
Willert Park Housing Spring Street between Peckham and William Streets architect: Fredrick Backus owner: State Housing Authority years built: 1939 demolished: N/A Among the group of housing developments in Buffalo this seems to be the best planned. Although the...