“Buffalo…who knew” that the steam-powered grain elevator was invented by Joseph Dart in our fair city in 1842, and that the city still houses one of the most important repositories of silos in the world?
Yet, despite their role in Buffalo’s economic growth and development, despite their profound influence on modern architecture, particularly European design, despite the very real possibility these are an asset that differentiate Buffalo from any other city in the world, we continue to lose these structures to demolition, decay, etc…