Lackawanna, NY - Table of Contents

Lackawanna Steel Plant Company Administration Building
AKA The North Office of Bethlehem Steel

Route 5, Lackawanna, NY
Immediatley south of the Buffalo-Lackawanna border

DEMOLISHED 2013

Erected:
1901
Architect L. C. Holden,  (NYC)
Style:
Beaux Arts Classicism
Occupancy:
Vacant since 1982 when Bethlehem Steel closed.




On display at the Steel Plant Museum of WNY  (online January 2014)



On display at the Steel Plant Museum of WNY


On display at the Steel Plant Museum of WNY


On display at the Steel Plant Museum of WNY


On display at the Steel Plant Museum of WNY

Color photos taken in 2003


Beaux Arts Classical  style






Acroteria on triangular pediments  ..... Corinthian brick pilasters ..... Eared windows .....  Window cartouches



Acroterion  .....  Block modillions support raking cornice







C and S scrolls  ridge crest



Top:  copper  dormers






Center pedimented dormer is decorated with bottom  scroll buttresses



Laurel leaf  wreath ..... C scroll  buttresses




Corinthian  pilasters






Terra cotta corbel-supported entablature



Paired guttae



Cartouche



Copper lion head.



Color photos and their arrangement © 2003 Chuck LaChiusa
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