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Hotel Statler "Send a message to your friends about 'The Complete Hotel' in Buffalo and our new hotel in Cleveland". - E.M. Statler Ellsworth Statler opened a restaurant in the newly erected Ellicott Square Building in1896. Its success led to a hotel two blocks from the Ellicott Square Building - Hotel Buffalo, pictured below. In 1919, Statler hired George B. Post & Sons to design a nineteen-story hotel - said to have been the largest building in the state outside of New York City - on Delaware Avenue at Niagara Square. After Statler built the hotel on Delaware, he changed the name of the hotel on Washington to Hotel Buffalo; hence, the difference of the name on this postcard.

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