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Kenmore-Tonawanda Municipal Building 
2919 Delaware Avenue at Delaware Road, Kenmore, NY


Built:
 1936
Architect:
 Green & James
Funding:
 WPA
Style:
 Neoclassical Monumental  (Art Deco-influenced civic buildings style)
"Tonawanda" etymology:
 Native American "swift waters"




View from the Municipal Building entrance steps looking south at the intersection of Delaware Avenue and Delaware Road.


Art Deco style aluminum ornamentation.
Note staircase railing behind the window.


Art Deco style ornamentation


West elevation


Top Art Deco style panels serve  as capitals on pilasters.
Art Deco aluminum spandrel panels.



Fountain design is popular Art Deco image

Special thanks to Kenmore Historian Ed Adamczk
and the Office of Town of Tonawanda Supervisor Anthony Caruana
for their cooperation in 2010
Photos and their arrangement © 2010 Chuck LaChiusa
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