Buffalo River Tugs under a setting sun
by Chris Bordeleau
Title
Buffalo River Tugs under a setting sun
Artist
Chris Bordeleau
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
New Jersey & Washington tugboats sit on Buffalo river in the setting sun over the Lake & Rail grain elevator.
The Lake and Rail Elevator was built between 1927 and 1930 and has a very unusual architectural highlight in that it had flat walls built around its cylindrical bins. The North Annex, at the inside of a 90 degree bend of the Buffalo River, was built in 1928. The South Annex was built to the Childs Street lot in 1929.
Further along you can see the Marine A, which was built as a transfer elevator by the Able family, owners of several other elevators in the Buffalo area. The Marine A had a very short active life. It was constructed in 1925 and because it didn't have a mill associated with it, the elevator fell victim to the demise of the industry during the 1960s when the transshipment business that was prevalent in Buffalo collapsed in the 1960s.
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January 4th, 2015
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