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The Larkin Administration Building in 1906. The Larkin Building was an office building in Buffalo, New York, noted for innovations that included central air conditioning, built-in desk furniture, and suspended toilet partitions and bowls. Located at 680 Seneca Street, it was demolished in 1950.
The Larkin Terminal Warehouse, also known as Larkin at Exchange or the Larkin R/S/T Building, [1]: p.88 is located at 726 Exchange Street, Buffalo, New York in a neighborhood known as the "Hydraulics." The neighborhood was one of Buffalo's earliest industrial districts and its name is derived from the construction of a small hydraulic canal.
The Larkin Company, also known as the Larkin Soap Company, was a company founded in 1875 in Buffalo, New York as a small soap factory. It grew tremendously throughout the late 1800s and into the first quarter of the 1900s with an approach called "The Larkin Idea" that transformed the company into a mail-order conglomerate that employed 2,000 people and had annual sales of $28.6 million ...
Larkin Building may refer to: Larkin Company Building, an eight story building in Chicago, built in 1912 and demolished in 2020; Larkin Administration Building, a building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in Buffalo, New York, demolished in 1950; Larkin Terminal Warehouse, a building in Buffalo, New York, built in 1912
Larkinville, also known as The Hydraulics, is an area of Buffalo, New York located near downtown, South Buffalo and Canalside.Once an industrial neighborhood, it is now home to offices, shops, and a public gathering space called Larkin Square that regularly features food trucks, events, and concerts.
The City of Buffalo established the Preservation Board in 1976. Its powers and responsibilities are derived from Buffalo's Preservation Ordinance, 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 ...
The square, "open" floor plan without a wall between living room and dining room devised by Walter Burley Griffin for the Lamp House would become a standard in the following years, reused in no fewer than 25 of Wright's later projects, including the Barton House (1903–04) in Buffalo, New York, and adapted by Prairie School architects in ...
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 1929–1966. First building to exceed the height of the original Electric Tower, demolished 27 years earlier. 1972- Seneca One ...