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EXCERPTS: Lumsden & McCormick Celebrates Move to Cyclorama Building
September 6, 2012 Buffalo Risng Online
Lumsden & McCormick, LLP, together with Ciminelli Real Estate Corporation, is hosting a ribbon cutting ceremony today at noon to commemorate the opening of its newly renovated offices in the Cyclorama Building located at 369 Franklin Street; 124 years to the day that the Queen City Cyclorama Company first opened the doors of the Cyclorama Building. On September 6, 1888, the Queen City Cyclorama Company opened for business displaying the panoramic painting Jerusalem on the Day of the Crucifixion, by Karl Frosch, a German artist who, with a team of assistants, had spent years researching and painting the enormous panorama. It remained in Buffalo for two years. As the Buffalo Morning Express stated on September 9, 1888 - "The building is as unique as it is imposing and looks as if it has been erected to stay." "This is truly a celebration today, both of Lumsden's new headquarters and of the building's remarkable history," said Paul Ciminelli, President and CEO of Ciminelli Real Estate Corporation. "My father recognized its rich past and the tremendous potential for its future when he saved it from the wrecking ball 27 years ago." |
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EXCERPTS: Lumsden & McCormick bound for Cyclorama By James Fink Business First February 7, 2012 Online Built in 1888 for the Buffalo
Cyclorama Co., the building has had a number of uses including serving
as a roller skating rink, livery and home to the Grosvenor Library.
Developer Frank Ciminelli bought the building in 1985 for $110,000. For many years it was home to his construction company, now LPCiminelli Co. LPCiminelli moved to the a former auto dealership on Main Street in Buffalo’s Central Park district and the 26,000-square-foot building has been up for lease for nearly two years. Lumsden & McCormick is bringing 90 employees to the building. |
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EXCERPTS: Cyclorama Building Reopens By Jonathan D. Epstein Buffalo News September 7, 2012 ...
the building was acquired by the city in 1910 for about $40,000. Over
the next 30 years. it served as a roller skating rink, a livery and a
taxi garage, falling into disrepair and condemnation in 1937.
The Works Progress Adminisrtation took it on, spending $36,000 for new windows, a new floor, a new roof and an additional room, and it then housed the Grosvenor Library from 1942 to 1963, before being abandoned for the next 25 years. Frank Ciminelli saved what had become a derelict building from the wrecking ball in 1985, and the family's construction company and strategic investment group called it their home from 1988 until just a few years ago. ... Paul Ciminelli, noting that his father bought it for $110,000, without a specific plan for its use, and it became the younger Ciminelli's first project after he graduated from college. |
