Old Post Office - Table of Contents

Old Post Office / Erie Community College
121 Ellicott Street at South Division
Buffalo, New York


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Main entrance on Ellicott St.

The main corridor extends around the north, west and south sides of the building.

On the first floor the main corridor is a Gothic Revival colonnade

Paired, smooth-shafted engaged marble columns with Corinthian capitals

 

Plaster groin vaults originally had stenciled decorations.

   

Hipped skylight covers the courtyard.

Each of the four upper stories has an open gallery or corridor facing on an interior courtyard

The Venetian palazzo-like interior space is one of the most impressive in the city. Arranged around the corridors were originally 156 office rooms.

Old Post Office - Table of Contents


Photos and their arrangement © 2002 Chuck LaChiusa
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