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created by PAWolf
on 10/25/2004 12:46 AM
last modified by Emperor Wang
on 3/23/2024 11:15 PM
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This location has been labeled as Demolished, and therefore can be viewed by anyone.
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Currently it's partially demolished but the work seems to have stopped. Our guess is it was too expensive and was put on hold.
UPDATE: YouthSonic discovered that the cell phone repeaters on top are owned by Verizon. That would explain the oblivious security in the trailer outside and suspension in demolition.
UPDATE 2: Demolition has resumed, bottom floor windows have been boarded up. Large silos have been demolished.
UPDATE (7/15/05): No silos remain and they have begun demolition of the large tower that the repeaters were on.
UPDATE (7/19/05) All white tower is also gone, red brick only thing standing.
3.22.2024 - Completely demolished in November 2023.
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Type: Building
Status: Demolished
Accessibility: Easy - it's gone
Recommendation: forget it - it's an empty lot
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asbestos
rust
unsafe flooring
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A lot of interesting grain processing equipment that has been left relatively intact.
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fences
barbed wire
part-time guard
cameras
highly visible and near patrolled train tracks, part time guard (blue truck)
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flashlight
long pants / sleeves
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Spread of concrete elevators: The many advantages of concrete for grain elevator construction accounted for the near universal adoption of this method of construction for large elevators by the second decade of the twentieth century.
As the Portland Cement Association pointed out in 1917, concrete furnished the surest form of fireproofing for elevators and mill buildings. Perhaps the best proof of that fact, stated the Association, was that "no insurance need be carried on the structure, as it cannot burn." Concrete silos also could be counted on to preserve the grain from damp. In fact, they were so reliably waterproof that manufacturers of Portland cement, a material far more easily ruined by wetness than grain (which could be dried), had adopted the cylindrical concrete grain bin to store this important building material.
Concrete also provided unexcelled protection against rodents. And because it would not rot, it also insured stored grain against the ravishes of insects, which, if they did happen to infest a bin could be easily destroyed by fumigation in the airtight atmosphere.
Furthermore, concrete basement tunnels for moving grain were watertight and permanent.
"The concrete cylinder elevator," stated Reyner Banham, is still so omnipresent because it represented an almost excessively good investment when first built. If it was solidly enough made to carry its load, maintain an equable thermal environment, and resist fire for long enough to amortize the original investment, then it had to be well enough made to last more or less forever -- and be well enough made to be extremely costly to demolish."
With improved mixtures of concrete and the adoption of the practice of slip forming, concrete also came to be used to construct the headhouses, workhouses and overhead galleries as well as the grain bins themselves.
In earlier days, these elements were built with structural steel and clad with corrugated iron. The Washburn Crosby C2 Elevator [Photo above] of 1913 was the first in Buffalo to employ a concrete gallery; A. E. Baxter's Ralston Purina workhouse of 1917 had the first workhouse and headhouse constructed of concrete in Buffalo. These were built quickly by the slip forming method that engineers employed to raise the cylindrical bins.
Indeed, speed of construction was another important positive aspect of concrete grain elevator construction. "The timetable for the construction of an elevator," states the Historic American Engineering Record, "was usually extremely tight. Slip forming began only when spring was far enough advance, yet the promoters expected the building to be operational by autumn to received the first of that year's crop and ensure that storage was full at the close of the navigation season in mid-December."
By the 1920s, it was common for engineers to erect elevators, headhouses, and workhouses of concrete. (Marine legs, which were mobile, were erected on steel frames and covered with corrugated iron plates.) It is from this period that Buffalo's classic, concrete elevators date.
Equipment:
Since 1928 Schutte-Buffalo Hammer Mill has manufactured a full line of size reduction equipment including hammermills, lumpbreakers, laboratory mills, wood grinders, and more, in sizes for every application. (A box was found with “Schutte Hammer Mill” on it).
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For sale as historic building.
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This location's validation is current. It was last validated by
Emperor Wang on 3/23/2024 11:18 PM.
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on Mar 23 24 at 23:18, Emperor Wang validated this location
on Mar 23 24 at 23:15, Emperor Wang changed the following: Security Measures, Future Plans, Description
on Mar 23 24 at 23:13, Emperor Wang changed the following: Notes for Mods, History, Interesting Features, Security Measures
on Mar 22 24 at 16:59, fr00tCake added some pictures to a gallery
on Mar 22 24 at 16:56, fr00tCake changed the following: Street Address, Year Closed
on Mar 22 24 at 16:54, fr00tCake added some pictures to a gallery
on Mar 22 24 at 16:53, fr00tCake created a new gallery
on Mar 22 24 at 16:53, fr00tCake changed the following: Status, Accessibility, Recommendation, Media Coverage, Description
on Feb 28 11 at 6:04, Opheliaism validated this location
on Feb 28 11 at 4:20, thepinkbyrd added some pictures to a gallery
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