10 Lafayette Square, also known as the Tishman Building, is a high-rise office tower located in
Lafayette Square in
Buffalo, New York
Buffalo is the second-largest city in the U.S. state of New York (behind only New York City) and the seat of Erie County. It is at the eastern end of Lake Erie, at the head of the Niagara River, and is across the Canadian border from Sou ...
. Completed in 1959, it is the thirteenth-tallest building in Buffalo, standing at 263 feet (80 m) and 20 stories tall. The building is located adjacent to the
Rand Building
The Rand Building is a skyscraper and the second tallest building in Buffalo, New York. At the time it was built in 1929, it was the tallest in the city at a height of . The building was built on the site of the 1903 Olympic Theatre and it has b ...
and built in the
International Style. The structural frames for the building are not steel, but concrete beams and columns. The building architects were
Emery Roth & Sons of New York City.
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Previous building
For 81 years (1876–1957), the six-story, cast iron, Buffalo German Insurance Company Building (a Second Empire-style office building built by Richard A. Waite) existed on current land site prior to the Tishman Building.
History
The Tishman building was home to the Fortune 500 company, National Fuel Gas (formerly Iroquois Gas) until 2003 when the company relocated to the Buffalo suburb of Williamsville.
In May 2011, the Amherst-based Hamister Group purchased the Tishman building. They spent $41 million renovating the building into a mixed use
Mixed-use is a kind of urban development, urban design, urban planning and/or a zoning type that blends multiple uses, such as residential, commercial, cultural, institutional, or entertainment, into one space, where those functions are to som ...
complex including the 123-room Hilton Garden Inn Buffalo Downtown, two floors of apartments, and three floors of office space.National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...
in 2012, as the Tishman Building.
Gallery
image:10 Lafayette Square and Rand Building.JPG
See also
*List of tallest buildings in Buffalo
This list of the tallest buildings in Buffalo ranks skyscrapers in Buffalo, New York by height. The tallest building in Buffalo is currently the Seneca One Tower, which stands 529 feet (161 m) tall. As of 2017, Buffalo has 17 structures taller t ...
References
External links
10 Lafayette official website
Skyscraperpage building page
Emporis building page
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Office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
Office buildings completed in 1959
International style architecture in New York (state)
Skyscraper office buildings in Buffalo, New York
Skyscrapers in Buffalo, New York
National Register of Historic Places in Buffalo, New York
Skyscraper office buildings in New York (state)
Residential skyscrapers in New York (state)
Skyscraper hotels in New York (state)
Emery Roth buildings