St. Louis Church

Saint Louis in Fog

A foggy morning obscures the steeple of St. Louis, known as the mother church of Roman Catholic Churches in the Buffalo Diocese. The parish itself was formed this month in 1829 with land given by French nobleman and Holland Land Co. agent Louis Stephen LeCouteulx de Caumont. The original parish church was  built of logs from the adjacent woods in 1831. It was replaced by a larger brick church , which was lost to fire in 1885. The impressive continental Gothic style church we see today was completed 1889. The oldest Catholic congregation in Buffalo also has a reputation amongst contemporary Catholics as one of the most welcoming parishes in the area.

https://stlouisrcchurch.org/

Tri-Main Center

Tri-Main Center

The faded letters spelling Ford are still visible on the old smokestack of the Tri-Main Center. Henry Ford commissioned architect Albert Kahn in 1915 to design the facility that would go on to produce hundreds of thousands of Model Ts and Model A Fords. In the years leading up to and during World War II, Bell Aircraft occupied the space and was followed by Trico until 1988. The Tri-Main Center celebrated its 25th year in its current manifestation as Buffalo's original repurposing success story. Tri-Main has been a blueprint for the revitalization of local manufacturing spaces. On the 2000 block of Main St., the building is home to over 100 artist studios, workshops and businesses in its sprawling 575,000 square feet.

http://trimaincenter.com/