F.N. Burt Company Factory "C" | |
F.N. Burt Company Factory "C", September 2016 | |
Location | 1502 Niagara Street, Buffalo, New York |
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Coordinates | 42°55′30″N78°53′53″W / 42.92500°N 78.89806°W Coordinates: 42°55′30″N78°53′53″W / 42.92500°N 78.89806°W |
Area | 0.44 acres (0.18 ha) |
Built | 1911 | -1932
Built by | R.J. Reidpath & Sons/Turner Construction Co |
Architectural style | Daylight Factory |
NRHP reference No. | 100000657 [1] |
Added to NRHP | April 17, 2017 |
F.N. Burt Company Factory "C", also known as Bison Storage, is a historic box factory building in Buffalo, Erie County, New York. It was built in 1911. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. [1]
The building has seven-stories of reinforced concrete and is a daylight factory building. It has a rectangular plan and is nine bays wide by two bays deep and has a flat roof.
The F.N. Burt Company occupied the building until 1932, after which the building housed a warehouse. Another factory operated by F.N. Burt in Buffalo was the F.N. Burt Company Factory. [2] The building has been redeveloped as an apartment building known as The Crescendo Lofts.
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