More than just an outdoor sports emporium, the history of this West Seneca company provides but a single example of a vanishing community institution.
John V. Wolf, born of German immigrants, established his store at the corner of Strauss and Genesee Streets, across from the Williams Funeral Home.
As work on the HARBORCenter gets underway in Buffalo, we look back on the colorful history of the Webster Block.
When wallpaper became a design phenomenon, M.H. Birge & Sons was a leader in quality and sales. Explore this local business’s rise and fall, and how it shaped our community.
Exploding out of Western New York and into the hearts, minds and medicine cabinets of fans nationwide, the seven Sutherland sisters made and lost a fortune as singers, models and spokeswomen. Brandon Stickney shines light on "the greatest and best drawing card ever known."
The Larkin Company is still well known for their mail-order soap business, but they also operated various stores and markets during the early 1900s. Dr. Howard Stanger details the company’s ventures and why they failed.
Once iconic enough for a Charles Burchfield painting ("Rainy Night"), Buehl's Building fell into disrepair until Roger Trettel brought the corner of Broad and Ellicott Street back to life.
Leonard Rambler Steel was always thinking big, and his approach to business made him – and his employees – very successful. But when the L.R. Steel Co. grew too big, too fast, the fallout was felt nationwide.
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Through a partnership with Christopher Behrend Photography, we bring you this photography book showing the end result of the restoration of the Art Nouveau murals in the North Park Theatre.
Through a partnership with Christopher Behrend Photography, we bring you this unique collection of the most intense & beautiful winter icescapes-captured during the incredible winter months of 2019.