175 Buffalo River, Buffalo, Erie County Buffalo NY United States
Status:
built
Construction Dates
Finished
1915
Floor Count
7
Building Uses
- unused
- mechanical
- warehouse
- industrial
Structural Types
- silo
- tower
- exterior elevator
Heights
Value
Source / Comments
Roof
205 ft
Historic American Engineering Record, National Park Service
Main roof
151 ft
''
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Description • Concrete Central stretches along the Buffalo River for almost a quarter of a mile and was the largest elevator ever built in the Buffalo area. When it was in operation, it had the capacity to handle a total of 4.5 million bushels of grain. The elevator allowed crews to load and unload 20 railroad cars an hour, three marine legs could load and unload three massive lake freighters at one time.
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