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Hotel Buffalo, Washington Street DEMOLISHED for the baseball stadium 450 rooms. 450 baths. Center of Downtown Buffalo, N. Y. Every room with a private bath, circulating ice water and radio. Owned and operated by McCarriagher Hotel Corporation Ellsworth Statler opened a restaurant in the newly erected Ellicott Square Building in 1896. Its success led to a hotel two blocks from the Ellicott Square Building at Washington and South Division Streets - Hotel Buffalo, pictured below. In 1919, Statler hired George B. Post & Sons to design a nineteen-story hotel - said to have been the largest building in the state outside of New York City - on Delaware Avenue at Niagara Square. After Statler built the hotel on Delaware, he changed the name of the hotel on Washington to Hotel Buffalo; hence, the difference of the name on this postcard.

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