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Buffalo’s East Side Industry

Shane E. Stephenson

WNY Genealogical Society

November 19, 2016

Why me?

Convergence of two occupations:

Workforce Development

Buffalo History Museum

Why a book on Industry?

Buffalo was founded based on the potential use of natural resources

Companies moved manufactured goods, services and people using

those natural resources

Uniquely positioned to help westward expansion by easterners


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Why Industry?

Companies formed by transporting goods from the east over land to the edge of Lake Erie, where they would be loaded onto ships for transportation

through the Great Lakes

•  Buffalo Harbor

•  Niagara River

•  Erie Canal

•  Railroads

With material moving, storage, transportation came people

Transportation

Why EAST Side Industry?

East Side Industry was at the heart of the Buffalo’s growth

Natural boundaries forced companies looking to expand to look east

1820s – Hydraulic neighborhood develops using Little Buffalo Creek, various canals as an industrial center using water for power

Late 1820 - 1830s – Streets beginning to be laid out

1840s – Rail-lines enter the city

– Hamburg Canal: Clark and Skinner Canal, Ohio Slip/Ohio Basin


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Why East Side Industry

1850s – Streets laid out to Jefferson Avenue

1860s – 1861 Buffalo City Directory, businesses such as Awning Makers, Blacksmiths, Brewers, Box Makers, Dry Goods, General Grocers, Shingle Manufacturers, Contractors, Tinsmiths, Vinegar Manufactures, and Wagon Makers moving into the East Side – but, no major single industry

1860 – 1890 Population expands from 81,000 – 255,000, and by 1895 population is 310,000

1890s – Forges, Foundries, Iron Works, Sewing Machine Manufacturers Furniture Makers, Liveries, Meat Packing, Food Transportation, Lumber Yards, Railroad Depots, and Tanneries

- Buffalo has 76 Dry Good Stores, and 51 of them are on the East Side

Major Companies

Locally Grown:

Dresher Paper Box, Inc

F. N. Burt Company

Buffalo Forge Company

Elias & Bros

George Laub & Sons Tannery

Irvin Air Chute Co

Globe Woven Belt Company

Kaufman’s Baking

All Breweries

Curtiss – Wright

All Meatpacking

Houde Engineering

Cooper Paper Box Company

Harrison Radiator

Eberl Iron Works Company

Buffalo Foundry Co

Hewitt Rubber Company

Urban Milling Company

Lumen Bearing Company

Snow Steam Pump Company

The Pohlman Foundry

Wildroot Company

The Duffy Silk Mill Company

Buffalo Pottery

Wagner Palace Car Company

Spencer Kellogg & Sons

Locally Grown:

Dresher Paper Box, Inc

F. N. Burt Company


Elias & Bros

George Laub & Sons Tannery

Irvin Air Chute Co

Globe Woven Belt Company

Kaufman’s Baking

Major Companies

Not Local

Lisk – Savoy Companies

American Car & Foundry

The American Brake Shoe Foundry Company

General Motors / American Axle

The Otis Elevator Company

General Cable Corporation

Nabisco

Worthington Pump Company

US Rubber Reclaiming Company

General American Tank Car Corp

Ward & Ward Bakery (Wonder Bread)


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Buffalo Forge Company, 2015


Founded in 1878 by William Wendt and later joined by his brother Henry Wendt

1880 – moved 490 Broadway

1902 – George L. Squier Manufacturing Co

1904 – Buffalo Steam Pump Co

1905 – Canadian Blower & Forge Company in Montreal, Quebec and then Kitchener, Ont.


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1895 – Auditorium Hotel in Chicago

Late 1890s – Began looking into humidifying or dehumidifying air in factories

1900s – 1910s – Began designing heating and cooling systems for industrial buildings for heat / cooling losses for different types of building construction

Carrier Air Conditioning Company of America

Carrier Engineering Corporation

1993 Purchased by James Howden and Company

Hewitt Rubber Company

240 Kensington Ave


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Wildroot Company

1490 Jefferson Ave & Bailey / West Shore Drive

Wildroot Company

Created products to lessen dandruff

By 1950:

12 products

Spent 3 million dollars a year in advertising

80 salesmen across the country selling products to supermarkets, general stores and other barbers


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George Urban Milling Co

183 Kehr Street

International Steam Pump Company


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45 Roberts Ave

Other Companies

Other companies


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Building Reuse

137 – 139 Broadway (Between Elm and Michigan) Louis Onetto Ice Cream Manufactory

Vim Cycle Hardware Company

1201 – 1209 Broadway (Between Brighton and Memorial) Stanislaus Lipowicz Wholesale Grocers

Rodak Grocery Corporation

Scott-Marquart Company

1490 William Street (Between Bud Mil and Central) Karas Sausage Meat Company

Tripifoods Complex

Building reuse

556 Genesee Street (Between Davis and Jefferson) Fraternal Order of Orioles (Supreme Nest)

Dnipro Ukrainian Cultural Center

368 Sycamore Street (Between Mortimer and Eureka) Cooper Paper Box Company

Buffalo Forge Company storage and Dust Lab

127 – 129 Cherry Street (Between Spring and Hickory) Buffalo Trunk Manufacturing Company

Anthone’s Furniture

Building reuse

1490 Jefferson Avenue (Between E. Ferry and Brunswick) Wildroot Company

Rugby Knitting Mills

2381 Fillmore Avenue (Between Chalmers and Main) Hall Baking Company

Home Pride Bakeries

Kaufman’s Bakery

56 Clyde Avenue (Between Kensington and E. Amherst) General Cable Corporation

Harrison Radiator Corporation


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Writing process

Took about 2 years from time of first contact to publication

Extensive Author Proposal

Researched the photographs, most from BHM

Captioned each photograph Use informational value within photograph Buffalo / Suburban Directories Ready Reference at BHM Vertical File at BHM Grosvenor Room at Central Library

Writing process

Worked the layout of the book How best to layout images

Chapters

Order of chapters

Order of images in chapters

Cover Photo

Overview

204 Images in Book

141 Companies Represented

Streetscapes

Broadway

Clinton and William

Michigan and Bailey

Seneca and South

Into the Neighborhoods

Old Meets New

Google “Buffalo’s East Side Industry Map”


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Questions and Contact

Questions

Contact:

Shane E. Stephenson

[email protected]

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