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Electric Tower (or General Electric Tower) is a historic office building and skyscraper located at the corner of Washington and Genesee Streets in Buffalo. It is the seventh tallest building in Buffalo. It stands 294 feet (89.6 m) and 14 stories tall and is in the Beaux-Arts Classical Revival style. It was designed by James A. Johnson and built ...
Electric Tower 294 / 90 14 Tallest building in Upstate New York 1912–1914. 1925–1929 Liberty Building: 345 / 105 23 Tallest building in Upstate New York 1925–1928. 1929–1972 Rand Building: 405 / 123 29 Tallest building in Upstate New York 1929–1972. First building to exceed the height of the original Electric Tower, demolished 27 ...
Second-tallest building in New York State at the time of its construction, only two feet (61 cm) shorter than the Park Row Building in New York City. Tallest building ever destroyed in Upstate New York. 1902–1912 Saint Paul's Episcopal Cathedral: Buffalo: 275 / 84 N/A 1912–1914 Electric Tower: Buffalo: 294 / 90 14 1914–1925 Kodak Tower ...
Location of Buffalo in New York. ... General Electric Tower: General Electric Tower. September 12, 2008 : 535 Washington St. Downtown ...
The Pan-American Exposition was a world's fair held in Buffalo, New York, United States, from May 1 through November 2, 1901. [1] The fair occupied 350 acres (0.55 sq mi) of land on the western edge of what is now Delaware Park, extending from Delaware Avenue to Elmwood Avenue and northward to Great Arrow Avenue.
With a population of 278,349 according to the 2020 census, Buffalo is the second-most populous city in New York State after New York City, and the 81st-most populous city in the U.S. [10] Buffalo is the primary city of the Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area, which had an estimated population of 1.1 million in 2020, making it the 49th ...
The Buffalo History Museum was constructed in 1901 as the New York State pavilion for the Pan-American Exposition of 1901 and is the sole surviving permanent structure from the exposition. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 23, 1980, and designated a National Historic Landmark on February 27, 1987.
It was a partnership of German-born August Esenwein (1856-1926) and James A. Johnson (1865-1939). The partnership was started in 1898; [1] the firm designed "many of Buffalo's outstanding buildings including the Lafayette High School and the General Electric Building".