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- 1 2 3 4 5 LaChiusa, Chuck. "Flint & Kent Dry Goods /Hippodrome Theater". www.buffaloah.com. Buffalo Architecture and History. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
- ↑ "Howard, Whitcomb & Co." becomes "Flint, Kent & Stone" (paid announcement), The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, Vol. 31, No. 11433, February 18, 1865, p. 3, col. 8; OCLC 16095896
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