Vars Building
344-352 Delaware Avenue at Tupper, Buffalo, NY
Erected:
1929 Architects:
Lawrence Bley and Duane Lyman Style:
Art Deco Location:
- Vars Building -southwest corner of Delaware and West Chippewa
- Harlow C. Curtiss Building - northwest corner of Delaware and Tupper
- Asbury Methodist Church - northeast corner of Delaware and Tupper
Related pages:
 Looking Northwest  Perhaps the best example of Commercial Art Deco in the city  Fluting along the top ... Stone (Ohio limestone?) pilasters with bas-relief stylized Ionic capitals ... Black, fluted spandrel panels  Fluting along the top ... Stone (Ohio limestone?) pilasters with bas-relief stylized Ionic capitals ... Black, fluted pilasters  Fluting along the top ... Stone (Ohio limestone?) pilaster with bas-relief stylized Ionic capitals ... Black, fluted pilasters ... Stone bas relief Art Deco spandrel panels  Black, fluted Ionic pilaster with bas relief Art Deco capital  Note black spandrel panels   Art Deco stone bas relief Art Deco spandrel panel  Black, but photograph color changed by sunlight   Entrance at left beneath the panel    Top of photo: blue canopy |
Perhaps the best example of an Art Deco commercial building in the city.Delaware Avenue became the city's most prestigious street in the late 19th century with most of the city's largest residences being built on the street. Starting in the early 20th century, commercial and apartment buildings replaced many of the 19th century residences, especially after the street was widened, and trees removed.
Original owner: "...the son [of Harry T. Vars] Addison F. Vars was a heavy hitting young republican who was president of the advertising firm Addison Vars Inc. which was located at Delaware and Tupper" - History of the Niagara Frontier, Vol. IV, Biographical, 1931, by Merton M. Wilner, pp. 296-300
