Lafayette Square Perspectives View 2 - Northeast Corner from Main & Broadway Streets.

c. 1908 (city population 423,715)
Buildings on Broadway from left to right German Insurance Building corner of Main, (1876), the Lafayette Theatre beside it.
On the far right, the gray building is the Lyric Theater. Visible on Main Street is the William Hengerer Company department
store (1903), the white building adjacent to the German Insurance Building, and the gold dome of the Buffalo Savings Bank (1901).

See Lafayette Square in 1929 when it was a circle here.

August 2002 (population 292,648) Noon
The dark glass high-rise structure is the Tishman Building (1959). To the right is the Art Deco Rand Building, a skycraper completed
in 1929. The building on Main Street adjacent to the Tishman is the fomer Hengerer's Department Store, now an offic building.

Link to Ben Maryniak's history of Soldiers & Sailors Monument

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