George Morton Wolfe (1885-1966) was a prolific Buffalo, NY architect who specialized in industrial architecture. Born in 1886 in Middletown, Connecticut, Wolfe spent two years at Hartford Technical High School in Hartford, Connecticut, before settling in Buffalo in 1903.
In the first stage of his career, Wolfe worked as a draftsman in the contracting business of S.H. Woodruff. In 1908, he started his own architectural and engineering practice specializing in “factory, warehouse, and commercial building construction in their many forms.”
Throughout his career, Wolfe designed factories and other industrial buildings for General Motors, Houde Engineering, Iroquois Gas, Houdaille Industries (in Buffalo and Akron, NY), American Machine & Foundry (in Cheektowaga), Morrison Steel, U.S. Hame Company, Buffalo Weaving and Belting Company, and Augustine Automatic Rotary Engine Company, among many others…