That is spectacular. Not my style at ALL, but impressive for sure.
Fortunately, it is now a museum and has been preserved. They even bought the house of the caretaker recently. Which is on the adjacent block to the left. It was owned by a private family until recently.
Buffalo actually has a lot of guided age architecture that is quite beautiful. It was a great city in the late 1800s early 1900s. Keep in mind the Erie Canal started there. Then all the lake boats/ships had to unload there until the Canadians built the Welland Canal and the locks on the Saint Lawrence Seaway. that was the start of the downturn. Then in the 1970s the steel mills started closing.
Also,
“Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse built the first large-scale hydroelectric power plant at Niagara Falls in 1895:
Nikola Tesla and the Development of Hydroelectric Power at ...
The plant was the world’s first to use alternating current (AC) on a large scale. Tesla’s work on AC electricity and the Niagara Falls plant helped usher in the electronic age and the electrification of the United States and the world.”
Buffalo was on the cutting edge of technology in 1896/turn of the twentieth century.