Buffalo Trunk Manufacturing Company Building is a historic factory and warehouse building located at Buffalo in Erie County, New York, United States. It is a five-story, eight-bay, red brick, L-shaped, flat-roofed industrial building constructed in two phases, 1901–1902 and 1906–1907. It is an example of "slow burn" masonry and wood factory construction.
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The Dnipro Ukrainian Cultural Center is a civic and social club located at 562 Genesee Street in Buffalo, New York.
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Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center is a cancer research and treatment center located in Buffalo, New York. Founded by surgeon Roswell Park in 1898, the center was the first in the United States to specifically focus on cancer research. The center is usually called Roswell Park in short. The center, which conducts clinical research on cancer as well as the development new drugs, provides advanced treatment for all forms of adult and pediatric cancer, and serves as a member of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network. Until 2025, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center was the only Western New York facility to hold the National Cancer Institute designation of "comprehensive cancer center".
The Roswell Park campus, spread out in 15 separate buildings of approximately two million square feet, occupies 28 acres on the 100-acre Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus in downtown Buffalo, and includes 1,500,000 square feet of space equally distributed between clinical programs and research/education functions. A separate hospital building, completed in 1998, houses a diagnostic and treatment center. The campus also includes a medical research complex as well as research and education focused spaces.
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M. Wile and Company Factory Building is a historic garment factory located at Buffalo in Erie County, New York. It is an early and significant example of the "Daylight Factory." The four-story building, erected in 1924, is constructed of reinforced concrete and features curtain walls of metal sash windows. It was home to M. Wile & Company until 1999; a major manufacturer of men's suits, founded by Mayer Wile in Buffalo in 1877. In 1969, the company became a subsidiary of Hartmarx.
In 2007, plans were announced for redevelopment of the historic factory building as part of the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus. The first floor of the building is occupied by the Buffalo Employment and Training Center.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
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Trico Plant No. 1 is an historical building located in Buffalo, New York. Originally a factory that produced windshield wipers, it was converted in 2024 to apartments. It is an example of a style of architecture sometimes referred to as the daylight factory, a style for which Buffalo is well known. The building was mostly constructed in the 1920s and 1930s of reinforced concrete and features curtain walls of metal sash windows and brick spandrels, although a portion of the plant incorporates an historic brewery building from the 1890s. It was the original home of Trico Products Corporation, the first manufacturer of windshield wipers, and was an important factory during a period when Trico was the largest employer in the city of Buffalo. The building is also known for once being the office of John R. Oishei, the company's founder and an industrialist who went on to become one of the most important philanthropists in the Buffalo Niagara Region.
The Trico business continued to operate at the building until 1998, when, after having transferred most of its manufacturing facilities to Texas and Mexico, the company moved out of the building. In 2003, plans were developed and conditionally approved by the New York State Historic Preservation Office to reuse the building as a mixed residential and commercial structure. That developer subsequently died, and in 2007 the property was purchased by the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus. After sitting dormant for another four years, it was reported that BNMC planned demolition of about 95% of the building beginning on April 15, 2012. Meanwhile, community groups called attention to BNMC's refusal to conduct an adaptive reuse study or evaluation process prior to demolition to assess the feasibility of building reuse.
Trico Plant No. 1 was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.
In 2019, large portions of the southernmost sections of the building were demolished; the remaining portions were renovated into a mixed-use complex with loft apartments.
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The Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus is a medical center of health care, life sciences research and medical education institutions, co-located on 120 acres in Buffalo, New York. The BNMC was founded in 2001 by a consortium. This project comprises one of the five "Strategic Investment Areas" that make up Buffalo, NY's Queen City Hub Plan, the city's strategic plan for urban redevelopment.
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It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.