New York Central Terminal - Table of Contents

EXTERIOR - Buffalo Central Terminal
Memorial and Paderewski Drives, Buffalo NY

On this page, below:  2003 photos ..... 2007 photos ..... 2013 photos

Built:
1929
Closed:
1979
Architect:
Fellheimer & Wagner
Style:
Art Deco
Status:
A City of Buffalo Local Landmark
Listed on the State/National Registers of Historic Places


2003 Photos


2003 photo ...  17 acre site, 2.5 miles east of downtown Buffalo. ...  Art Deco style ... 17 story tower ... 4 story baggage building ... Not shown: 2 story mail building along Curtiss Street



2003 photo ... Tower: Clock



2003 photo ... Concourse



2003 photo ...  Tower sheet metal spandrel panel ... Side, entrance canopy



2003 photo ... Tower sheet metal spandrel panel


2003 photo ...  Tower terra cotta  spandrel panel ... Window with terra cotta surround ... Sheet metal entrance canopy ... 4 details below:


2003 photo .... Tower ... #1 of four details: Terra cotta  spandrel panel


2003 photo ... Tower ... #2 of four details:  Front, entrance canopy and wrought iron support



2003 photo ... Tower ... #3 of four details:  Wrought iron canopy support



2003 photo ... Tower ... #4 of four details:  Sheet metal side, entrance canopy


2003 photo ... Tower ... Wrought iron canopy and support


2007 Photos


2007 photo ... Neighborhood: Corpus Christi Church


2007 photo ... Neighborhood: "telescope houses" and Corpus Christi Church



2007 photo: Typical tour



2007 photo



2007 photo



Tower ... Concourse (huge window) ... Baggage building



2007 photo ... Tower 

2007 photo ... Tower clock



2007 photo ... One of several tower entrances



2007 photo ... Tower ... Another entrance ... See 2003 photos above



2007 photo ... Tower ... Fanciful brick bond



2007 photo ... Concourse



2007 photo ... Concourse detail


2013 Photos


2013 photo ... Tower ... 2 details below:



2013 photo



2013 photo  ... Original stuffed bison from the Science Museum ... Clock in concourse



2013 photo ... Tower ... Note car suspended beneath clock



2013 photo ... Tower ... Art Deco ... Top of tower ... 2 details below:



2013 photo ... Tower ... Sandstone Art Deco volutes ... Top of tower  ... #1 of two details



2013 photo ... Tower ... #2 of two details: Fanciful brick bond



2013 photo ... Tower ... Suspended car beneath tower clock



2013 photo ... Tower ... Deteriorating entrance sheet metal canopy



2013 photo ... Tower ... Deteriorating entrance sheet metal canopy



2013 photo ... Tower ... Art Deco  concourse detail



2013 photo ... Tower ... Entrance ... 2 details below:



2013 photo ... Tower ... Entrance ...  #1 of two details:  Serpentine stone with incised  Art Deco Egyptian lotus plant



2013 photo ... Tower ... Entrance ...  #2 of two details:  Serpentine stone with incised  Art Deco Egyptian lotus plant



2013 photo ... Concourse ...   Art Deco  concourse detail ... Voussoirs ... Chevron pattern



2013 photo ... View from parking area in front of the station looking down at baggage building



2013 photo ... Balustrade on the edge of the parking lot ... Note Art Deco reeded balusters


2013 photo ... Sandstone Art Deco reeded balusters on the edge of the parking lot ... Note multicolored granite



2013 photo ... Art Deco light standard (missing lights)



2013 photo  ... Damaged balustrade reveals building materials



2013 photo ... Baggage building ... Note six colored stone spandrel panels between rows of windows (detail below:)



2013 photo ... Baggage building ... Serpentine stone used as spandrel panels


2013 photo ... Baggage building ... Fanciful bonding



Photos and their arrangement © 2003, 2007, 2013 Chuck LaChiusa
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