Built:	1929-1931
Frieze designer:	John Wade
Sculptor:	Albert T. Stewart
Chief Stonecutter:	Joseph Graf
Building material:	Ohio sandstone
Style:	Art Deco bas-relief

Excerpt from Buffalo City Hall: American Masterpiece," by John H. Conlin Pub. by the Landmark Society of the Niagara Frontier, 1993, p. 21 The central figure is an adaptation of a Sibyl of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling. The ancient Sibyls were recorders and foreseerers of events. [Sculptor Albert T.] Stewart collaborated with Architect Wade to insure "that the rhythms and composition of the panel would harmonize precisely with the rhythms and composition of the massive architecture of the building itself." Wade had designed a complete frieze with Native Americans on the left and settlers on the right of a sibyl He discarded it because it did not fit the proportions of the building. Here placed the generic subjects with ordinary people of the city, "something of Buffalo." It was hoped that the use of sculpture in conjunction with this building would influence the use of sculpture in other buildings. Stewart was the sculptor of the rear frieze and of four large figures in the center of the main lobby. His work may also be found on buildings at Amherst and Williams Colleges, and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.