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Architects' and Builders' Exhibits, Inc. / Niagara Square Professional Building
One Niagara Square,
Buffalo, NY

Erected:

1924
1965 - Third floor addition

Architects:

1920s Edward B. Green and Son and Albert Hopkins (Baynes-Tashberg were the heating and plumbing contractors)
1965 Robert Traynham Coles

Style:

Second Renaissance Revival


Designed by E. B. Green and Son and Albert Hopkins for their second floor offices next door to the
Buffalo Athletic Club (building on right of the first photo) which they also designed.

First floor was occupied by William H. Lyon, Buffalo's leading men's tailor.



1924 photo   ...   Photo reprinted from "A Selection of Photographs Illustrating Work of Edw. B. Green & Sons, Architects, One Niagara Square, Buffalo." Pub. Buffalo, 1924   ....   Photo courtesy of Dr. Joseph Bieron




Third floor is modern addition, stone faced with a band of single light windows



First floor has four bays with round arched transoms   ...     Second floor has plain cornice    ...   Third floor is modern addition, stone faced with a band of single light windows



Round arched transom



Capitals on pilasters






Front wood paneled door on right has dentiled cornice above with carved stone blocks in frieze



Bead-and-reel  balustrade on balconet



Dentiled cornice above  carved stone blocks in frieze






Photos and their arrangement © 2002 Chuck LaChiusa
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