List of City of Buffalo landmarks and historic districts


The City of Buffalo designates landmarks and historic districts to recognize and protect places of local, state, and national significance.
The enables local governmental programs for the preservation, restoration, and maintenance of the historical, architectural, archaeological, and cultural environment, and was adopted to promote a "spirit of stewardship and trusteeship for future generations."
The City of Buffalo has designated 166 local landmarks and 18 local historic districts, inclusive of about four percent of the parcels in the city. In addition to local designations, Buffalo possesses many properties that are either individually listed, or are contributing resources to historic districts, on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).

Preservation Board

The City of Buffalo established the in 1976. Its powers and responsibilities are derived from Buffalo's, which declares "as a matter of public policy that preservation, protection, conservation, enhancement, perpetuation, and utilization of sites, buildings, improvements, and districts of special character, historical or aesthetic interest, or value are necessary and required in the interest of the health, education, culture, prosperity, safety, and high quality of life of the people."

Designation Criteria

The City of Buffalo designates landmarks and historic districts according to a process and criteria established in the Preservation Ordinance. The Preservation Board makes a recommendation, and the Common Council makes a decision, as to whether a proposed landmark, landmark site, or historic district meets one or more of the following criteria:
  1. It has character, interest, or value as part of the development, heritage, or cultural characteristics of the city, state, or nation.
  2. Its location is a site of a significant local, state, or national event.
  3. It exemplifies the historic, aesthetic, architectural, archaeological, educational, economic, or cultural heritage of the city, state, or nation.
  4. It is identified with a person or persons who significantly contributed to the development of the city, state, or nation.
  5. It embodies distinguishing characteristics of an architectural style valuable for the study of a period, type, method of construction, or use of indigenous materials.
  6. It is the work of a master builder, engineer, designer, architect, or landscape architect whose individual work has influenced the development of the city, state, or nation.
  7. It embodies elements of design, detailing, materials, or craftsmanship that render it architecturally significant.
  8. It embodies elements that make it structurally or architecturally innovative.
  9. It is a unique location or contains singular physical characteristics that make it an established or familiar visual feature within the city.
Any structure, property, or area that meets one or more of the above criteria must also have sufficient integrity of location, design, materials, and workmanship to make it worthy of preservation or restoration.

Project Review

Once the City of Buffalo has designated a landmark or historic district, the designated property or properties fall under the jurisdiction of the Preservation Board. The Preservation Board reviews exterior work only, and applies the in making decisions on projects.

List of Local Landmarks

A landmark is a structure, object, or site, which the City of Buffalo has designated per the criteria of the Preservation Ordinance, that has been determined to possess individual local, state, and/or national significance.
#Local LandmarkAssessment AddressAdoptedImageNRHP StatusDescriptionNotes
1Blessed Trinity R.C. Church317 Leroy Avenue1/13/1977ListedBlessed Trinity Roman Catholic Church, built from 1923 to 1928 and designed by Schmill & Gould, may be the finest example of Lombard-Romanesque architecture in North America.
2Darwin Martin Complex125 Jewett Parkway, 143 Jewett Parkway, 118 Summit Avenue3/10/1977National Historic LandmarkThe Darwin D. Martin House Complex was built between 1903 and 1905 and designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The Martin House Complex is among the most important works of Wright's Prairie School period.
3Gates Circle Fountain2 Gates Circle3/10/1977Contributing property, Delaware Park–Front Park SystemThe Gates Circle Fountain, designed by E. B. Green, was erected from 1902 to 1903 in the circle known up to that point as Chapin Place. The fountain was funded by Mrs. Charles Pardee in honor of her parents, Mr. & Mrs. George B. Gates.
4St. Mary's Seminary125 Edward Street3/10/1977Contributing property, Allentown Historic DistrictSt. Mary's Seminary is a three and four story building with Federal and Italianate style detailing built in 1862, and occupied by the Le Couteulx St. Mary's Institute for Deaf Mutes until 1899.
5Franklin Square North556 Franklin Street, 558 Franklin Street, 564 Franklin Street3/10/1977Contributing property, Allentown Historic DistrictFranklin Square North is a site consisting of the Phineas Marsh House, built in 1867 in the Italianate style; Sullivan Drullard House, built in 1862 in the Second Empire style, with a Romanesque addition built in the 1890s; and a rear carriage house.
6Guaranty Building (Prudential Building)140 Pearl Street3/30/1977National Historic LandmarkThe Guaranty Building is a skyscraper built from 1895 to 1896 and designed in the Sullivanesque style by Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler. The 13 story office building is among the earliest steel-supported, curtain-walled buildings ever built.
7Old County Hall100 Franklin Street4/14/1977ListedOld City & County Hall is a historic city hall and courthouse built from 1871 to 1875 and designed in the Late Victorian Romanesque style by Andrew Jackson Warner. The four story granite building features a 270-foot central clock tower.
8St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral12 Church Street4/14/1977National Historic LandmarkSt. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral was built from 1849 to 1851 and designed in the Gothic Revival style by Richard Upjohn. Upjohn is said to have considered St. Paul's his best commission, and it is arguably Buffalo's first nationally noteworthy building.
9McKinley Monument5 Niagara Square5/12/1977Eligible
Contributing property, Joseph Ellicott Historic District
The McKinley Monument is a 96-foot-tall obelisk dedicated in 1907 to the memory of President William McKinley, who was fatally shot at the Pan-American Exposition in 1901. It was conceptualized by Daniel H. Burnham and designed by Carrère & Hastings.
10Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site641 Delaware Avenue5/12/1977ListedThe Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site is the location, at the Ansley Wilcox House, where Theodore Roosevelt took the oath of office as President of the United States on 14 September 1901.
11Shea's Buffalo Theatre642 Main Street6/9/1977ListedShea's Buffalo is a movie palace, now a performing arts theater, built from 1925 to 1926 and designed by Rapp & Rapp in a combination of Spanish and French Baroque and Rococo styles, with the interior design by Louis Comfort Tiffany.
12Birge Mansion2 Symphony Circle6/14/1977Contributing property, Allentown Historic DistrictThe Birge Mansion was built in 1897 and designed in the Georgian Revival style by Little & Browne of Boston. It was the home of George K. Birge, founder and president of the Pierce Arrow Motor Company.
13St. Casimir's R.C. Church138 Cable Street9/8/1977EligibleSt. Casimir's R.C. Church was built from 1926 to 1929 and designed in the Byzantine Revival style by Chester Oakley. Pope John Paul II, then the cardinal of Kraków, stayed two nights at St. Casimir's rectory in 1976.
14Albright-Knox Art Gallery1285 Elmwood Avenue11/10/1977ListedThe Albright Knox Art Gallery is an art museum built from 1890 to 1905 and designed in a Neoclassical style by E. B. Green, with a 1962 addition designed in the Modernist style by Gordon Bunshaft.
15St. Vincent de Paul R.C. Church2021 Main Street11/10/1977EligibleSt. Vincent de Paul R.C. Church was built from 1924 to 1926 and designed in a Byzantine/Romanesque style by Thomas, Perry, & McMullen.
16The Church of the Good Shepherd96 Jewett Parkway11/10/1977Contributing property, Parkside East Historic DistrictThe Church of the Good Shepherd was built from 1887 to 1888 and designed in the Richardsonian Romanesque style by Marling & Burdett.
17Trinity Episcopal Church371 Delaware Avenue1/12/1978ListedTrinity Episcopal Church was built from 1884 to 1886 in a Victorian Gothic style by Cyrus K. Porter, and is best known for stained glass windows by John LaFarge and Tiffany studios. The Christ Chapel, built in 1869, is the oldest part of the complex.
18Asbury Methodist Church341 Delaware Avenue1/12/1978ListedThe Delaware Asbury Methodist Church was built in phases from 1871 to 1876 in the Gothic Revival style by John H. Selkirk. Originally the Delaware Avenue Methodist Church, the name was changed in 1917 when it merged with the Asbury Methodist congregation.
19Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane444 Forest Avenue1/12/1978National Historic LandmarkThe Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane was built in phases from 1870 to 1895 and designed in the Richardsonian Romanesque style by Henry Hobson Richardson, with the grounds designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux.Includes only Buildings 38, 39, 40, 42, 44, 45, 10, 9, and 12
20Old Post Office (ECC City Campus)70 Swan Street1/12/1978ListedThe Old Post Office was built from 1897 to 1901 and designed with Romanesque Revival, Chateauesque, and French Gothic features by James Knox Taylor. The building features a 244-foot tower and central light court.
21Buffalo City Hall65 Niagara Square1/12/1978ListedBuffalo City Hall is a 32-story government building built from 1929 to 1931 and designed in the Art Deco style by Dietel, Wade, & Jones. At 378 feet in height, it is Buffalo's second tallest building and the fourth tallest city hall in the U.S.
22St. Louis R.C. Church782 Main Street1/12/1978Contributing property, Allentown Historic DistrictSt. Louis R.C. Church was built from 1886 to 1889 and designed in the Gothic style by Schikel & Ditmars. The 245 foot tower is intended to recall the tower of the Cathedral of Cologne.
23St. John's Grace Episcopal Church13 Bidwell Parkway2/9/1978Contributing property, Elmwood Historic District–WestSt. John's Grace Episcopal Church was built from 1925 to 1927 and designed in the English Perpendicular Gothic style by Mayers, Murray, & Philip with Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue.
24Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church598 Lafayette Avenue2/9/1978Contributing property, Elmwood Historic District–EastLafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church was built from 1894 to 1896 and designed in the Romanesque Revival style by Lansing & Beierl. Bouck Street was renamed to Lafayette Avenue in honor of the church.
25Central Park United Methodist Church216 Morris Avenue2/9/1978EligibleThe Central Park United Methodist Church was built from 1921 to 1923 and designed in the Perpendicular Gothic style by Charles Bolton & Sons.
26First Presbyterian Church393 Pennsylvania Avenue2/9/1978Contributing property, Allentown Historic DistrictFirst Presbyterian Church was built from 1889 to 1891 and designed in the Richardsonian Romanesque style by Green & Wicks. Its offset, 163 foot tall tower is the predominant visual feature looking south along Olmsted's Richmond Avenue.
27Unitarian Universalist Church646 West Ferry Street3/9/1978ListedThe Unitarian Universalist Church was built from 1904 to 1906 and designed in the English Perpendicular Gothic style by Edward Austin Kent. The Buffalo Nine, a group of Vietnam War protestors, were arrested at the church on 19 August 1968.
28Market Arcade615 Main Street5/11/1978Eligible
Contributing property, Theatre Historic District
The Market Arcade was built in 1892 and designed in the Neoclassical/Beaux Arts style by Green & Wicks. Buffalo's only historic covered shopping arcade connected Main Street to the Chippewa Market.
29Lafayette Square415 Main Street5/11/1978Eligibility undetermined: Lafayette Square
Eligible: Soldiers & Sailors Monument
Lafayette Square, named Court House Square until 1879, was laid out by Joseph Ellicott in his 1804 city plan. Mayor Grover Cleveland laid the cornerstone for the Soldiers & Sailors Monument in 1882.
30Dun Building110 Pearl Street5/11/1978Eligible
Contributing property, Joseph Ellicott Historic District
The Dun Building is a 10-story office building built from 1894 to 1895 and designed in the Neoclassical style by Green & Wicks. Robert Graham Dunn, for whom the highrise was built, founded the R.G. Dun & Company, predecessor to Dun & Bradstreet.
31Courier-Express Building785 Main Street5/11/1978Eligible
Contributing property, Theatre Historic District
The Courier Express Building was built from 1929 to 1930 and designed in the Art Deco style by Monks & Johnson. The Buffalo Courier Express was a daily newspaper published from 1926 to 1982.
32Polish Singing Circle Building1168 Broadway5/11/1978EligibleThe Polish Singing Circle Building was designed by Władysław Zawadzki. The Polish Singing Circle was organized in 1897 and occupied this building starting in 1916.
33Lafayette High School348 Lafayette Avenue9/14/1978ListedLafayette High School was built from 1901 to 1903 and designed in the Renaissance Revival style by Esenwein & Johnson.
34Connecticut Street Armory781 Niagara Street9/14/1978ListedThe Connecticut Street Armory is a New York Army National Guard facility built from 1897 to 1899 and designed in a Richardsonian Romanesque style by Williams Lansing with Isaac G. Perry.
35St. John the Baptist R.C. Church62 Hertel Avenue10/12/1978EligibleSt. John the Baptist R.C. Church was built from 1925 to 1927 and designed in the Italian Romanesque style by Oakley & Schallmo.
36St. Francis de Sales R.C. Church575 Humboldt Parkway10/12/1978Contributing property, Hamlin Park Historic DistrictSt. Francis de Sales R.C. Church was built from 1926 to 1927 and designed in an Italian Romanesque Revival style by Murphy & Olmsted with George J. Dietel.
37Orrin Foster Mansion891 Delaware Avenue10/12/1978Eligible
Contributing property, Linwood Historic District
The Orrin Foster Mansion was built from 1903 to 1905 and designed in the Mediterranean Revival style by Frank M. Chappelle. It is associated with patent medicine manufacturer Orrin Foster.
38Durham Memorial AME Zion Church170 East Eagle Street1/11/1979ListedThe Durham Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church was built in 1922 and designed by Louis Greenstein. Founded as St. Luke's AME Zion Church, it is the oldest surviving building associated with the Buffalo AME Zion congregations.
39New York Central Terminal495 Paderewski Drive2/8/1979ListedBuffalo Central Terminal is a 17-story former railroad station built from 1925 to 1929 and designed in the Art Deco style by Fellheimer & Wagner. It ceased operations as a railroad station in 1979.Includes only the Central Terminal Tower and Concourse
40Lafayette Hotel391 Washington Street4/12/1979ListedThe Lafayette Hotel is a seven-story hotel built in phases between 1902 and 1926 and designed in the French Renaissance style by Bethune, Bethune, & Fuchs. Louise Blanchard Bethune was the first registered female architect in the U.S.
41158 Swan Street158 Swan Street7/12/1979N/ADemolished
42159 Swan Street159 Swan Street7/12/1979N/ADemolished; Includes only the original rowhouse site at the former 159 Swan
43Buffalo History Museum25 Nottingham Court7/12/1979National Historic LandmarkThe Buffalo Historical Society, built from 1900 to 1901 and designed in a Neoclassical style by George Cary, was the only permanent building constructed for the Pan-American Exposition.
44Colored Musicians Club145 Broadway9/13/1979Listed145 Broadway has been the home of the Colored Musicians Club, a historic jazz institution of national renown, since 1935. The building was constructed in 1910 and designed by Joseph Geigand.
45IRC Building847 Main Street10/11/1979Delisted 1 Jan 1981N/ADemolished
46St. Mary's on the Hill Episcopal Church783 Niagara Street12/13/1979N/ADemolished
47St. Mary's R.C. Church Complex215 Broadway, 217 Broadway2/14/1980Eligible: St. Mary's LyceumSt. Mary's Lyceum, all that remains of the St. Mary's R.C. Church Complex, was built in 1909 and designed in a Neoclassical style. The architect is not known.St. Mary's R.C. Church was destroyed by fire in 1986; St. Mary's Convent was demolished in 1990
48Engine No. 281170 Lovejoy Street4/10/1980ListedEngine No. 28 is a firehouse built in 1897 and designed in the Queen Anne style by Frederick Mohr.
49Episcopal Church Home 825 Busti Avenue8/14/1980Eligible: Hutchinson ChapelThe Hutchinson Chapel was built in 1895 and designed in the Gothic Revival style by W.A. Archer. It is all that remains of the Episcopal Church Home Complex.Thornton Building demolished, only Hutchinson Chapel remains standing
50Little Harlem Hotel494 Michigan Avenue9/11/1980N/ADemolished
51Kleinhans Music Hall360 Pennsylvania Avenue10/9/1980National Historic LandmarkKleinhans Music Hall was built from 1938 to 1940 and designed in the International Style by Eero & Eliel Saarinen. Among others, Margaret Truman, Martin Luther King Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy have performed or spoken there.
52Knights of Columbus498 Delaware Avenue11/13/1980Contributing property, Allentown Historic DistrictThe Knights of Columbus was built in about 1870 as the home of Chillion M. Farrar. The Knights of Columbus occupied the building in 1916.
53Fosdick Masten High School186 East North Street, 161 Best Street, 180 East North Street3/12/1981ListedFosdick Masten High School, now known as City Honors School, was built from 1912 to 1914 and designed in the Beaux Arts style by Esenwein & Johnson.
54St. Andrew's Evangelical Lutheran Church175 Sherman Street, 212 Peckham Street3/12/1981ListedSt. Andrew's Evangelical Lutheran Church was built from 1884 to 1885 and designed by L. Saenger.
55Delaware Avenue Baptist Church965 Delaware Avenue7/9/1981Eligible
Contributing property, Linwood Historic District
The Delaware Avenue Baptist Church was built from 1894 to 1895 and designed in the Romanesque Revival style by John H. Coxhead.
56Hook & Ladder No. 3308 Spring Street7/9/1981N/ADemolished
57Wood Row Houses17 Emerson Place9/10/1981Delisted 20 May 1988Demolished
58Wood Row Houses29 Emerson Place9/10/1981ListedBuilt in 1894, this is part of a series of wood frame row house developments built in Cold Spring, the only Buffalo neighborhood with a significant concentration of such buildings.
59Wood Row Houses75, 77, 79, & 81 Woodlawn Avenue9/10/1981ListedBuilt in 1897, this is part of a series of wood frame row house developments built in Cold Spring, the only Buffalo neighborhood with a significant concentration of such buildings.
60Wood Row Houses147 Woodlawn Avenue9/10/1981N/ADemolished
61Wood Row Houses210, 214, & 218 Glenwood Avenue9/10/1981N/ADemolished
62Wood Row Houses1335 Michigan Avenue9/10/1981ListedN/ANever formally delisted from the NRHP despite having been demolished in 1997
63St. Mary of Sorrows R.C. Church938 Genesee Street1/23/1986ListedSt. Mary of Sorrows R.C. Church was built from 1887 to 1891 and designed in the Rhenish Romanesque style by Adolphus Druiding.
64Buffalo Lighthouse1 Fuhrmann Boulevard5/8/1986ListedThe Buffalo Lighthouse, also called the Buffalo Main Light, was built in 1833 and deactivated in 1914. The 1961 effort to save the lighthouse was the starting point for the preservation movement in Buffalo.
65Holy Mother of the Rosary Cathedral182 Sobieski Street6/12/1986EligibleHoly Mother of the Rosary Cathedral was built from 1900 to 1906 and designed in a Gothic Revival style by Sidney Woodruff. It is now Masjid Zakariya.
66Rohlfs House156 Park Street3/31/1987Contributing property, Allentown Historic DistrictThe Rohlfs House was built in 1912 and designed in the Craftsman style by Hudson & Colson. The house is associated with Charles and Anna Katherine Green Rohlfs, noted furniture designer and writer of detective stories, respectively.
67Hellenic Orthodox Church of the Annunciation1000 Delaware Avenue3/31/1987ListedThe Hellenic Orthodox Church of the Annunciation, originally known as North Presbyterian Church, was built in 1906 and designed in a Gothic Revival style by George F. Newton. It became the Hellenic Orthodox Church of the Annunciation in 1952.
68Niagara Falls Boulevard--9/29/1987N/ANiagara Falls Boulevard, between Main Street and Kenmore Avenue, was built in 1913 and surfaced with brick.Public ROW between Main/Kenmore
69Promiseland Baptist Church215 High Street2/2/1988EligiblePromiseland Baptist Church was built in 1883 and designed in a Gothic Revival style with Eastlake elements. The church was originally occupied by the Third German Baptist Church.
70Former M&T Bank 1036 Broadway5/10/1988Eligible
Contributing property, Broadway Fillmore Historic District
The M&T Bank Broadway/Mills Branch was built from 1923 to 1924 and designed in the Neoclassical style by Bley & Lyman. It is identical to the M&T Bank Grant-Boyd Branch completed in 1923.
71Hayes Hall Complex3425 Main Street10/18/1988Listed: Hayes Hall
Eligible: Hayes Annex D, Wende Hall, Townsend Hall, Beck Hall
Eligibility undetermined: Grounds
The Hayes Hall Complex include five of the earliest buildings of the University at Buffalo South Campus, and their landscaped grounds. The oldest building is Hayes Hall, built from 1874 to 1879 as the Erie County Alms House and Poor Farm.Includes only Hayes Hall, Hayes Annex D, Wende Hall, Townsend Hall, Beck Hall, and their grounds
72Fisherman's Wharf64 West Chippewa Street2/21/1989N/ADemolished
73Plymouth Methodist Church & Parsonage443 Porter Avenue, 453 Porter Avenue3/28/1989Contributing property, Fargo Estate Historic DistrictThe Plymouth Methodist Church & Parsonage were built from 1911 to 1912 and in 1889, respectively, and designed by Cyrus K. Porter & Sons.
74Boarding House Restaurant140 Seneca Street6/27/1989Eligible140 Seneca Street is a three-story brick Italianate commercial block built in about 1865.
75St. Vincent's Female Orphan Asylum Complex1313 Main Street, 1140 Ellicott Street7/25/1989Eligibility undeterminedThe St. Vincent's Female Orphan Asylum includes the Robinson-Squier House, built c. 1860; Orphanage, built from 1898 to 1899 and designed by Green & Wicks; G. Barrett Rich House, built c. 1890; and Gymnasium, built in 1935 and designed by George Dietel.
76Great Northern Elevator8 City Ship Canal4/10/1990Not eligibleThe Great Northern Elevator, built in 1897 and designed by engineer Max Toltz, is an outstanding example of an intermediate steel grain elevator, and is believed to be the sole surviving "brick box" elevator in North America.Only the Great Northern Elevator is subject to the landmark nomination. The Great Northern Elevator was demolished from 2022 to 2023.
77Calumet Building233 Franklin Street11/13/1990ListedThe Calumet Building, built in 1906 and designed by Esenwein & Johnson, is the most exuberant example of glazed architectural terra cotta in Buffalo.
78Buffalo Gas Light Works257 West Genesee Street12/23/1991ListedThe Buffalo Gas Light Works was built in 1859 and designed in the Romanesque Revival style by John H. Selkirk, Buffalo's first architect.
79Marine Hospital 2211 Main Street1/21/1992EligibleThe Marine Hospital was built in 1909 and designed in the French Renaissance style by James Knox Taylor.
80Buffalo Savings Bank2/18/199218 Feb 1992EligibleThe Buffalo Savings Bank, built in 1901 and designed by Green & Wicks, is among the most outstanding examples of neoclassicism in Buffalo. The building marked more than half a century of growth of Buffalo's first savings institution.
81Saints Peter & Paul Orthodox Church40 Benzinger Street9/15/1992ListedSaints Peter & Paul Orthodox Church was built from 1932 to 1933 and designed in a Byzantine Revival style by Joseph E. Fronczak.
82Breckenridge Street Church 44 Breckenridge Street9/29/1992Eligible
Contributing property, Upper Black Rock Historic District
The Breckenridge Street Church, built in 1827, is an outstanding example of the Federal style, rare in Buffalo, and the only Federal church surviving in Buffalo.
8360 Hedley Place60 Hedley Place12/8/1992Listed60 Hedley Place is a vernacular farm house with Greek Revival characteristics built in about 1850.
84Parkside Lutheran Church101 Linden Avenue12/8/1992Eligibility undeterminedParkside Lutheran Church was built from 1924 to 1925 and designed in the Tudor Gothic Revival style by Frank A. Spangenberg.
85Transfiguration R.C. Church929 Sycamore Street7/12/1994EligibleTransfiguration R.C. Church was built in 1896 and designed in the Gothic Revival style by Karl G. Schmill.
86St. Vincent de Paul Rectory 15 Eastwood Place2/21/1995EligibleSt. Vincent de Paul Rectory was built from 1913 to 1914 and designed in the Renaissance Revival style by Max G. Beierl.
87Jefferson Street Shul407 Jefferson Avenue5/27/1997N/ADemolished
88Engine No. 2/Hook & Ladder No. 9310 Jersey Street6/9/1998ListedEngine No. 2/Hook & Ladder No. 9 is a Second Empire style firehouse built in phases in 1875 and 1897 and designed in the Second Empire style by Cyrus K. Porter and Eckel & Ackerman, respectively.
89Swannie House170 Ohio Street2/23/1999EligibleThe Swannie House, built in 1893 by James Swannie, is one of Buffalo's oldest taverns and an important landmark of Buffalo's industrial waterfront.
90Rev. J. Edward Nash Sr. House36 Nash Street2/20/2001ListedThe Rev. J. Edward Nash Sr. House is a vernacular house built in 1893 and best associated with the Rev. Nash, pastor of the Michigan Street Baptist Church from 1892 to 1953. Nash lived in the house from 1925 to 1957.
91Carlton Ladd House11 Plymouth Avenue7/8/2003Contributing property, Allentown Historic DistrictThe Carlton Ladd House is a two and one-half story single unit dwelling built in 1887 and designed in a vernacular Queen Anne style by builder Richard Caudell. Carlton T. Ladd, the first owner, was a supervisor with the Watson Elevator.
92Dellenbaugh Block163 Broadway, 167 Broadway3/22/2005ListedThe Dellenbaugh Block is a series of four interconnected structures built from 1842 to 1922. Frederick Dellenbaugh, a prominent German immigrant, built the 1842 Federal Style house.
93Park Lane Condominiums771 Lafayette Avenue9/12/2006ListedThe Park Lane Condominiums, originally called the Parke Apartments, is a ten-story building built from 1924 to 1925 and designed in the Second Renaissance Revival style by H.L. Stevens & Company.
94School 46/Elmwood Park149 Edward Street, 175 Edward Street9/2/2008Contributing property, Allentown Historic DistrictSchool 46, built in 1888 and designed by H.H. Little, is the oldest continually operating public school in Buffalo.
95607 Jefferson Avenue607 Jefferson Avenue9/15/2009Eligibility undetermined607 Jefferson Avenue is a two and one half story, front gable mixed use building built in about 1860. A rescue mission of the Volunteers of America once occupied the site.
96609 Jefferson Avenue609 Jefferson Avenue9/15/2009Eligibility undetermined609 Jefferson Avenue is a two and one half story, front gable Queen Anne style residence built in about 1890. A rescue mission of the Volunteers of America once occupied the site.
97Wilkeson-Storms House771 Busti Avenue10/13/2009N/ADemolished
98Buffum Street Site129 Buffum Street11/29/2011Eligibility undeterminedThe Buffum Street Site is an archaeologically significant as a prehistoric Wenro and Seneca settlement.
99Erie Freight House9 South Street1/10/2012N/ADemolished
100Buffalo Terminal House2280 Niagara Street7/10/2012Eligibility undeterminedThe Buffalo Terminal House was built by the Cataract Power and Conduit Company in 1901 as a transformer building for alternating current electric power transmitted from Niagara Falls.
101St. Ann R.C. Church & Shrine651 Broadway, 371 Watson Street, 466 Emslie Street, 468 Emslie Street11/12/2013Eligible: St. Ann's Rectory, 371 Watson
Eligibility undetermined: 651 Broadway, 466 Emslie Street, 468 Emslie Street
The St. Ann R.C. Church & Shrine is a complex of three buildings dating between 1878 and 1895. The 1878 church was designed in the Gothic Revival style by Francis Himpler. The school, built in 1895, was once the largest in the Buffalo diocese.
102Wende House2256 Bailey Avenue9/1/2015Eligibility undeterminedThe Wende House was built in about 1870 and designed in an Italianate style. The house is associated with Gottfried H. Wende, an attorney and politician for whom the adjacent Wende Street is named.
103Fosdick Masten High School Great Lawn172 East North Street5/9/2016Eligibility undeterminedThe Fosdick Masten High School Great Lawn encompasses the entirely of the site of what is now City Honors School, originally occupied by a Potter's Field and later redesigned by Frederick Law Olmsted as Masten Place.
104North Park Branch Library2351 Delaware Avenue3/21/2017ListedThe North Park Branch Library was built from 1928 to 1929 and designed in the Tudor Revival style by Howard Beck.
105John C. Lord Cottage794 Potomac Avenue4/18/2017Contributing property, Elmwood Historic District–EastThe John C. Lord Cottage, built sometime between 1866 and 1872, is one of the oldest surviving buildings in the Elmwood Village.
106224 Plymouth Avenue224 Plymouth Avenue11/28/2017Eligible224 Plymouth Avenue is a Greek Revival front gable house built in about 1850.
107Wildroot Building1740 Bailey Avenue2/6/2018EligibleThe Wildroot Building, originally built for Grennan Bakeries in 1929 and expanded for Wildroot in 1946, was the longtime home of the iconic hair tonic manufacturer.
10882 Allenhurst Road82 Allenhurst Road3/6/2018Contributing property, University Park Historic District82 Allenhurst Road, built in 1921 by developer Anthony Huck, is an exceptional example of a craftsman bungalow in the University Park “planned" neighborhood.
109Knapp Building238 Carlton Street4/17/2018EligibleThe Knapp Building, built in about 1876 by grocer Peter Knapp, is a rare surviving example of an Italianate mixed-use building in the Fruit Belt neighborhood.
110Kensington Evangelical Lutheran Church983 Kensington Avenue5/15/2018EligibleKensington Evangelical Lutheran Church, now the New Testament Revival Cathedral, was built from 1926 to 1927 and designed in the Perpendicular Gothic style by Charles F. Obenhock.
111General Electric Tower20 East Huron Street5/15/2018ListedThe General Electric Tower is among the most familiar and identifiable features of the Buffalo skyline. The 14 story, 294-foot tall office building was built from 1911 to 1912 and designed in the Beaux Arts style by Esenwein & Johnson.
112Masten Avenue Armory188 East North Street5/29/2018EligibleThe Masten Avenue Armory is a New York Army National Guard facility built in 1933 and designed in a Tudor Revival style by William E. Haugaard.
113Bennett High School & All High Stadium2837 Main Street5/29/2018EligibleBennett High School is a public high school built from 1923 to 1925 and designed in a Georgian Revival style by the Associated Buffalo Architects. All High Stadium was built in 1928 and designed in a neoclassical style by Ernest Crimi.
114Michigan Street Baptist Church511 Michigan Avenue6/12/2018ListedThe Michigan Street Baptist Church, built from 1845 and 1849, is Buffalo's oldest remaining African American church structure. It is significant for its association with the Abolition, Underground Railroad, and African American civil rights movements.
115Grover Cleveland High School100 Fourteenth Street6/12/2018EligibleGrover Cleveland High School was built from 1913 to 1914 and designed in a Georgian Revival style by architect Herman W. Hoefer. It was originally built as the Buffalo State Normal School, and taken over by the Buffalo Board of Education in 1931.
116Kensington High School319 Suffolk Street6/26/2018EligibleKensington High School is a public high school built from 1934 to 1937 and designed in the Art Deco style by Daniel G. McNeil. The school was funded by the Public Works Administration, a New Deal program established in 1933.
117Riverside High School51 Ontario Street6/26/2018EligibleRiverside High School is a public high school built from 1928 to 1930 and designed in a neoclassicial style by F.J. & W.A. Kidd.
118Engine No. 26693 Tonawanda Street6/26/2018EligibleEngine No. 26 is a firehouse built from 1894 to 1895 and designed in the Chateauesque style by Frederick W. Humble. Robert B. Howard, Buffalo's first African American firefighter and Fire Commissioner, served as captain of Engine No. 26 from 1960 to 1966.
119Concrete Central Elevator175 Buffalo River7/10/2018ListedConcrete Central Elevator, built from 1915 to 1917 and designed by Harry R. Wait of the Monarch Engineering Company, is Buffalo's largest grain elevator and was the largest in the world when it was completed.
120East High School794 Northampton Street7/24/2018EligibleEast High School is a public high school built from 1925 to 1927 and designed in a neoclassical style by architects F.J. & W.A. Kidd.
121Cargill Superior Elevator2 Buffalo River7/24/2018EligibleCargill Superior Elevator is a grain elevator complex built from 1914 to 1925 in phases: Elevator A, B, and C. With a 3.7 million bushel capacity, it is among Buffalo's largest elevators. Elevator A was the city's first of slip form concrete construction.
122341 Franklin Street341 Franklin Street10/30/2018Not eligible341 Franklin Street is a mixed-use building constructed in about 1854.
123Samuel Schenck House3451 Bailey Avenue11/13/2018EligibleThe Samuel Schenck House may be Buffalo's oldest house still located at its original site. The house was built from 1822 to 1823 by Mennonite migrants Michael and Samuel Schenck in what was then the Town of Amherst, now Grover Cleveland Park.
124Wonder Bread Factory356 Fougeron Street11/13/2018ListedThe Wonder Bread Factory is an industrial bakery built from 1914 to 1915 and designed by Corry B. Comstock. The plant, closed in 2004, is associated with Ward & Ward Incorporated and the Continental Baking Company, maker of Wonder Bread and Hostess Cakes.
125Engine No. 221522 Broadway11/13/2018EligibleEngine No. 22 was built from 1890 to 1891 and designed in the Romanesque Revival style by August C. Esenwein. It is the city's second oldest continually operating firehouse, and may be the oldest surviving Esenwein designed building in Buffalo.
126Burgard Vocational High School368 Kensington Avenue11/13/2018Not eligibleBurgard Vocational High School was built from 1929 to 1930 and designed in an Art Deco style with Collegiate Gothic elements by Ernest Crimi.
127Sweet House246 Jersey Street12/11/2018Contributing property, Fargo Estate Historic DistrictThe Sweet House was built in about 1880 and designed in the Victorian Gothic style by Holmes & Little. It was originally built for baby carriage manufacturer Joseph Buffum Sweet.
128Engine No. 19209 Forest Avenue12/11/2018EligibleEngine No. 19 was built from 1887 to 1888 and designed by Hugh Macdiarmid in an Italianate style with Eastlake detailing. It is the oldest continually operating firehouse in the City of Buffalo.
129Near-Lewis House1029 West Avenue4/2/2019Not eligibleThe Near-Lewis House, built in about 1865, is a one story, cross gabled, vernacular workers cottage designed with Italianate style elements.
130Ford Motor Company Fuhrmann Plant901 Fuhrmann Boulevard4/16/2019EligibleThe Ford Motor Company Fuhrmann Plant is an automobile assembly plant built from 1930 to 1931 and designed by Albert Kahn & Associates. About two million automobiles were made at the plant prior to its 1958 closure.
131Public School 1875 School Street5/14/2019EligiblePublic School 18 is a public school built from 1939 to 1941 and designed in an Art Moderne style by Daniel G. McNeil.
132Public School 38360 Vermont Street5/14/2019Not eligiblePublic School 38 is a public school built from 1952 to 1954 and designed in the International Style by James William Kideney & Associates.
133Gethsemane Missionary Baptist Church55 Grape Street10/1/2019Eligibility undeterminedGethsemane Missionary Baptist Church is a complex built in phases from 1875 to 1989. After 1962, the church under Rev. Herbert V. Reid became Buffalo's most active in the fight for racial justice.
134Stritzinger Building871 Seneca Street10/15/2019Eligibility undeterminedThe Stritzinger Building, a commercial block built by Anton Stritzinger as a saloon by 1893, is a prominent and familiar visual feature of the Hydraulics neighborhood.
135William R. Heath House76 Soldiers Place3/17/2020Contributing property, Elmwood Historic District–EastThe William R. Heath House is a single unit house built from 1903 to 1905 and designed in the Prairie Style by Frank Lloyd Wright.
136Walter V. Davidson House57 Tillinghast Place3/17/2020Contributing property, Parkside East Historic DistrictThe Walter V. Davidson House is a single unit house built in 1908 and designed in the Prairie Style by Frank Lloyd Wright.
137Police Station No. 13348 Austin Street10/13/2020ListedPolice Station No. 13 was built from 1894 to 1895 and designed by Frederick C.H. Mohr in the Romanesque Revival style.
138Concordia Cemetery & Farmhouse438 Walden Avenue10/27/2020ListedConcordia Cemetery was established in 1859 by three German Lutheran churches. The farmhouse, used as a cemetery office, predates its establishment.
139Engine No. 161416 Main Street12/22/2020EligibleEngine No. 16 was built from 1884 to 1885 and designed by Hugh Macdiarmid in an Italianate style with Eastlake detailing. It is the oldest surviving firehouse erected by the Buffalo Fire Department.
140Monroe Building1786 Main Street & 1040 Lafayette Avenue3/16/2021ListedThe Monroe Building was built in 1920 and designed G. Morton Wolfe as the showroom and service station for the Monroe Motor Car Company, part of Buffalo’s “Automobile Row” on Main Street during the early 20th century.
1411762 & 1766 Main Street1762 & 1766 Main Street3/16/2021Eligible: 1762 Main Street
Eligibility undetermined: 1766 Main Street
1762 and 1766 Main Street were built in 1899 and circa 1920, respectively, with the prior designed by Louise Blanchard Bethune as a meat market for Henry Bald. From the late 1960s to 1974, 1762 Main Street was home to the Buffalo Black Drama Workshop.
142Spolka Building436 Amherst Street6/8/2021Not eligibleThe Spolka Building is a commercial block constructed from 1916 to 1917 by the Polish American Building Company for tailor Jacob F. Bujarek, and later occupied by men’s clothier Spolka.
143516 Amherst Street516 Amherst Street6/8/2021Not eligible516 Amherst Street is a former meat shop and dwelling constructed by 1909, and is typical to Buffalo's early twentieth century immigrant neighborhoods.
144Blessed Sacrament R.C. Church Complex1025 & 1035 Delaware Avenue7/6/2021EligibleBlessed Sacrament R.C. Church Complex is a series of buildings designed by Adolphus Druiding, Albert A. Post, Aristide Leonori, and Edgar E. Joralemon. They are fine examples of Gothic Revival ecclesiastical architecture and Beaux Arts residential architecture, respectively.
145West Avenue Presbyterian Church926 West Avenue11/16/2021Eligibility undeterminedWest Avenue Presbyterian Church was built in 1891 and designed in the Richardsonian Romanesque style by architect Edward A. Kent. Kent is notable as the lone Buffalonian to die in the sinking of the RMS Titanic.
146Fedders Manufacturing Company Factory31, 57, and 71 Tonawanda Street12/14/2021ListedThe Fedders Manufacturing Company Factory was built from 1907 to 1928 and the longtime home of a manufacturer of automobile heating and air conditioning products.
147Charles G. Curtiss Company Malt House1100 Niagara Street1/25/2022EligibleThe Charles G. Curtiss Company Malt House was built about 1898 as a malt house. It was later associated with the Fleischmann Company and Cooperative GLF Exchange, Inc.
148St. Adalbert R.C. Church208 Stanislaus Street10/4/2022EligibleSt. Adalbert R.C. Church was built from 1890 to 1891 and designed in the Romanesque style by Raymond Huber. The parish established in 1886 was the second Polish Roman Catholic parish in Buffalo.
149American Grain Complex139 Buffalo River and 3 Lot Lines9/3/2024ListedThe American Grain Complex, constructed in phases from 1905 to 1931, physically represents Buffalo’s history of grain transportation, handling, storage, uses, and associated technologies throughout the 20th century.
150South Side Bank of Buffalo2221 Seneca Street9/17/2024ListedThe South Side Bank of Buffalo was built in 1921 and designed in the Sullivanesque style by Harold Jewett Cook.
151St. John Kanty R.C. Church Complex101 Swinburne Street10/29/2024ListedThe St. John Kanty R.C. Church Complex is a multiple building complex erected from 1891 to 1966 and located on Broadway between Swinburne Street and Brownell Street in Buffalo’s East Side.
152Our Lady of Perpetual Help R.C. Church Complex125 O'Connell Avenue10/29/2024EligibleOur Lady of Perpetual Help R.C. Church was built from 1897 to 1900 and designed in the Gothic Revival style by Lansing & Beierl.
153St. Stanislaus R.C. Church Complex348 Peckham Street, 540 Fillmore Avenue, 142 Wilson Street, and 389 Peckham Street10/29/2024EligibleThe St. Stanislaus R.C. Church Complex is a multiple building complex erected from 1882 to 1960 in the Broadway Fillmore neighborhood. St. Stanislaus parish was established in 1873, sparking the wave of Polish immigrant settlement in Buffalo in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
154St. Thomas Aquinas R.C. Church Complex432 Abbott Road and 31 Tamarack Street10/29/2024ListedThe St. Thomas Aquinas R.C. Church Complex is a multiple building complex built in phases from 1922 to 1957 and designed in a modern interpretation of the Italian Romanesque style of architecture.
155St. Rose of Lima R.C. Church500 Parker Avenue10/29/2024ListedSt. Rose of Lima R.C. Church was built from 1963 to 1965 and designed in a New Formalist style by Leroy H. Welch.Only the 1963-1965 church building received designation. No other structure at 500 Parker Avenue is subject to the landmark designation.
156All Saints R.C. Church Complex205 Esser Avenue2/18/2025EligibleThe All Saints R.C. Church Complex is a multiple building complex, built in phases from 1911 to 1959 in the Riverside neighborhood.
157St. Michael's R.C. Church Complex573 Washington Street2/18/2025EligibleSt. Michael’s R.C. Church was built from 1864 to 1867 and designed in the Romanesque Revival style by “master architect and builder” Patrick C. Keeley, and reconstructed from 1962 to 1963 under architect Roswell E. Pfohl and interior designer John D’Arcangelo.
158Gelston Street Workers Cottage134 Gelston Street3/18/2025Eligibility undeterminedThe Gelston Street Workers Cottage is a typical workers cottage built by 1887 in a Folk Victorian style with simple Queen Anne detailing.
159Vaux Barn1119 Genesee Street4/15/2025EligibleThe Vaux Barn, built from 1875 to 1876 and designed in the Stick Style by Calvert Vaux, was part of the larger Parade House complex in The Parade. Moved out of the park and onto 1119 Genesee Street in 1897, it is the only remaining Vaux-designed building in Buffalo.The Vaux Barn only, and not the land or adjacent structure, has been designated a landmark.
160Central Park Station10 Starin Avenue4/29/2025Not eligibleCentral Park Station is a Belt Line commuter station built in 1894 and designed in the Queen Anne style by architects M.E. Beebe & Son. The station was erected by Central Park developer Lewis J. Bennett who leased it to the New York Central Railroad, which operated the Belt Line passenger service from 1883 to shortly after the World War.
161DeLaine-Waring A.M.E. Church Complex688 Swan Street4/29/2025EligibleThe DeLaine-Waring African Methodist Episcopal Church, originally St. Matthew’s Evangelical and Reformed Church, was built in 1868 and designed in a Romanesque Revival style by an unknown architect at the corner of Swan and Hagerman streets in the Hydraulics neighborhood. Home to the DeLaine-Waring A.M.E. Church since 1961, the church is the oldest extant religious building in the Hydraulics and remains an important living link to African American civil rights history.
162St. Martin's R.C. Church Complex1087 and 1112 Abbott Road5/27/2025Contributing property, McKinley Parkway Historic DistrictThe St. Martin's R.C. Church Complex is a church and school constructed between 1949 and 1959 and designed by Backus, Crane, and Love in the midcentury modern style. The Kinsey Realty Company donated the land for the parish and developed the adjacent neighborhood as "St. Martin’s Terrace."
163Schlitz Brewery Tied House840 William Street6/10/2025EligibleThe Schlitz Brewery Tied House is a two-story commercial block building, originally consisting of a first story saloon and second story boarding rooms, located at the corner of William and Wilson streets. The building was erected in 1909 for the Schlitz Brewing Company of Milwaukee as a brewery-tied saloon serving exclusively Schlitz beer.
164New Skateland Arena29 & 35 East Ferry Street9/16/2025EligibleThe New Skateland Arena, established in 1967 in a building constructed in 1921, attests to the importance of roller-skating culture in mid-twentieth-century Black culture and is significant in the context of the Civil Rights Movement in Buffalo.
165Sacred Heart R.C. Church Complex198 Emslie Street10/14/2025ListedThe Sacred Heart R.C. Church Complex includes a Late Gothic Revival-style church and Craftsman-style convent, both built in 1913 and designed by architect Carl Schmill.
166Greater Faith Temple Church of God in Christ480 Hickory Street12/9/2025Eligibility undeterminedThe Greater Faith Temple Church of God in Christ, originally the Second German Baptist Church, was built in 1860 and designed in a vernacular German Romanesque style.

List of Local Historic Districts

A historic district is geographically definable area, which the City of Buffalo has designated per the criteria of the Preservation Ordinance, that possesses a significant concentration, linkage, or continuity of sites, buildings, structures, or objects united historically by past events or united aesthetically by plan or development. A historic district may also comprise individual elements, separated geographically, but linked by association or history.
#Local Historic DistrictAdoptedImageNRHP StatusDescriptionNotes
1Delaware Historic District3/22/1977ListedThe Delaware Historic District is a two block section of Delaware Avenue home to the grand mansions—Renaissance, Georgian, English Gothic, and Greek Revival in style—of individuals prominently connected with the Buffalo's growth and development.
2Allentown Historic District3/21/1978ListedThe Allentown Historic District comprises the Allentown neighborhood, and represents a range of vernacular and common architectural styles, as well as architecture having national significance, from the early nineteenth to mid twentieth centuries.Boundaries clarified 5/18/1982; 6/251985; Boundaries of NR and local historic districts do not match
3Linwood Historic District10/17/1978CertifiedThe Linwood Historic District encompasses Linwood and Delaware avenues, and includes outstanding examples of architectural styles ranging from Gothic to Renaissance, Tudor, Italianate, and Queen Anne.Expanded 12/23/2014, 5/6/2015; expansion in 2015 not certified
4West Village Historic District5/6/1980ListedThe West Village Historic District comprises a principally residential neighborhood developed around Johnson Park in the mid to late nineteenth centuries, and encompassing styles ranging from Italianate, Second Empire, Greek Revival, to French Gothic.Boundaries of NR and local historic districts do not match
5Joseph Ellicott Historic District11/20/1982CertifiedThe Joseph Ellicott Historic District represents a century of growth of downtown Buffalo, with contributing structures including St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral, Guaranty Building, Old Post Office, Ellicott Square Building, Dun Building, and City Hall.
6Theatre Historic District11/15/1983CertifiedThe Theatre Historic District encompasses the 600 and 700 blocks of Main Street, with contributing structures including the Market Arcade, Shea's Buffalo, Greyhound Building, and Courier Express Building.
7Olmsted Parks & Parkways Historic District10/1/1985ListedThe Olmsted Parks & Parkways Historic District encompasses the park and parkway system, America's first, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux after 1870.
8Cobblestone Historic District7/12/1994CertifiedThe Cobblestone Historic District, comprising granite block streets and commercial and industrial buildings, is virtually the city's last continuing link to its Erie Canal heyday.Amended 12/1/1998; Eligible for NRHP
9Hamlin Park Historic District12/15/1998ListedThe Hamlin Park Historic District is a principally residential neighborhood developed between 1860 and 1975. The neighborhood was first German, Polish, and Jewish, and after 1950 predominantly African American.Amended 12/9/2025 to include public right-of-way features
10500 Block of Main Street Historic District1/8/2008CertifiedThe 500 Block of Main Street Historic District, centered at Main and Genesee streets, is historically and architecturally significant as a concentration of small-scale mixed-use buildings from the mid-nineteenth century to mid-twentieth century.Expanded 3/20/2018
11Genesee Gateway Historic District7/6/2010CertifiedThe Genesee Gateway Historic District is significant as a rare surviving mixed-use block with architectural styles dating between the 1840s and 1915.Expanded 5/11/2021
12Larkin Historic District7/22/2014CertifiedThe Larkin Historic District comprises the buildings and sites of the Larkin Company, one of the largest mail order firms in the U.S. The district comprises some of the best artifacts of Buffalo's "Golden Age" of industrial architecture from 1895 to 1925.
13Upper Black Rock Historic District4/28/2015CertifiedThe Upper Black Rock Historic District consists principally of industrial buildings with some remnants of the early to mid nineteenth century hamlet of Upper Black Rock.
14High Street Historic District5/16/2017Neither listed nor certifiedThe High Street Historic District is a three-building district comprising the Meidenbauer-Morgan House, Henry Schirmer's meat market, and Promiseland Baptist Church.
15Michigan Sycamore Historic District5/16/2017Neither listed nor certifiedThe Michigan Sycamore Historic District consists of a grouping of structures dating from the mid-nineteenth to early-twentieth centuries, representing an important period in African American life in Buffalo.68 Sycamore Street burned in 2018; 72 Sycamore Street was listed on the NRHP on 11/25/2021; Expanded 6/11/2019; Expanded 11/24/2020
16Broadway Fillmore Historic District5/29/2018CertifiedThe Broadway Fillmore Historic District was developed from the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries, comprises several architectural styles and notable buildings, and is strongly associated with Buffalo's Polish immigrant history.
17Berrick & Sons Demonstration Homes Historic District3/16/2021ListedThe Berrick & Sons Demonstration Homes Historic District is a collection of seven related buildings designed by the prominent late-19th century architect George J. Metzger and built in about 1901.
18Lower Black Rock Historic District6/13/2023CertifiedThe Lower Black Rock Historic District, with 12 contributing buildings and a period of significance of 1830 to 1957, embodies a typical mixed use "main street" built alongside the Erie Canal and New York State Barge Canal.