H. Tracy Balcom House

H. Tracy Balcom House

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...
Stephen M. Clement House

Stephen M. Clement House

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...
Larkin Company Warehouse

Larkin Company Warehouse

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...
Buffalo Zoo

Buffalo Zoo

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...
W.T. Grant Company

W.T. Grant Company

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...
Willert Park Housing

Willert Park Housing

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...