The John F. Kamman Building is a historic commercial building located at
Buffalo in
Erie County, New York.
[John F Kamman Building]
Buffalo as an Architectural Museum[http://buffaloah.com/surveys/hydr/CBCA%20Hydraulics%20MPDF.pdf ] It designed by Buffalo architect
F.W. Caulkins
Franklin Wellington Caulkins was a prominent architect in Buffalo, New York.
Caulkins was born in Hartford, Connecticut, to Dr. Russell Caulkins and Jane Whitbeck and later moved with his family to Toledo, Ohio, where he studied architecture from ...
and built in 1883. A four-story brick building, it was designed in the
Romanesque Renaissance style. The Kamman Building is located within the Hydraulics Neighborhood, Buffalo's oldest manufacturing district. A
post office substation was located in the building starting in 1893. It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places in 2010.
A 4-story building of "7-rank brick" and Medina
sandstone it has a ground floor storefront featuring
cast iron pilasters, a lion head ornament and a "The Kamman" sign above the door.
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The property was owned by the Kamman family until 1916, when it was sold to the ]Larkin Company
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The building's location in the Hydraulics area was near the large livestock yards and rail lines booming in the nineteenth-century (Buffalo was second only to Chicago in the number of cattle and hogs it handled). German butchers such as the Kamman family (immigrants who arrived in the mid-1800s) established themselves. Henry Kamman ran a butcher shop at 573-575 Seneca Street and Jefferson Avenue while brother John F. Kamman purchased property in the 700 block of Seneca during the 1850s and early 1860s and built the J. F. Kamman Slaughterhouse including barns, processing buildings, and sheds. The family also lived on the property. The Kamman Building was constructed around 1886 by John F. Kamman at 755-757 Seneca Street. John H. Kamman (son of Henry) continued the trade and the John H. Kamman Company was built into one of the city's largest meat markets and grocery store chains (including more than 30 stores). The Kamman Building at 757 Seneca Street was home to one of the markets in 1903.[
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Gallery
File:The Kamman Building Nov 10.JPG, The Kamman Building, side view, November 2010
References
External links
Official building website
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Commercial buildings completed in 1883
Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
Romanesque Revival architecture in New York (state)
Buildings and structures in Buffalo, New York
National Register of Historic Places in Buffalo, New York