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Joseph Ellicott's 1805 street plan for the village of Buffalo Joseph Ellicott Historic District is a local historic district in Buffalo , New York. It is in the vicinity of Niagara Square , which was designed by Joseph Ellicott as the centerpiece of the city's street plan in 1805.
Contributing property, Joseph Ellicott Historic District [Certified] 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. 31 Courier-Express Building
Historic district of 1,769 contributing structures developed primarily from 1876 to 1936, as a middle class residential neighborhood 132: Parkside West Historic District: Parkside West Historic District: December 10, 1986 : Roughly bounded by Amherst St., Nottingham Terr., Middlesex Rd., and Delaware Ave.
The Old Post Office, also known as U.S. Post Office, is a historic post office building located at 121 Ellicott Street in Buffalo in Erie County, New York within the Joseph Ellicott Historic District. It is currently home to the City Campus of SUNY Erie.
Niagara Square is a public square located at the intersections of Delaware Avenue, Court Street, Genesee Street, and Niagara Street in Buffalo, New York. It is the central hub of Joseph Ellicott's original radial street pattern that he designed in 1804 for the then village of New Amsterdam. It continues to be the nexus of downtown Buffalo.
Ellicott was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania on November 1, 1760. [2] He was the son of Quaker miller Joseph Ellicott (1732–1780) and Judith Blaker (1729–1809). Joseph's siblings included older brother Andrew Ellicott (1754–1820), a fellow surveyor, and younger brother Benjamin Ellicott (1765–1827), a U.S. Congressman.
At 10 stories high—with the capacity to support 10 more floors—and 447,000 square feet (41,500 m 2), [4] the Ellicott Square Building was the largest office building in the world by floor area until 1908, with the opening of the Hudson Terminal buildings in New York City. It was built at a cost of $3.5 million in less than one year.
In 2004, the Dillon Courthouse was nominated to the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing element of the Joseph Ellicott Historic District in Buffalo. [1] After completion of Robert H. Jackson United States Courthouse in 2012, Dillon Courthouse became vacant. In 2016 building was acquired by the City of Buffalo. [2]