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Historic Photographs from the David Steele Collection

The Victor & Company was downtown Buffalo’s largest furniture store, and at 10 stories and 186 feet in height, certainly its tallest.

The department store, built in 1929 at the northeast corner of Pearl and West Genesee streets, was designed in a neoclassical style and clad in white terra cotta.

The building was razed in 1981 to make way for a building addition and vehicular drop off for the Hyatt Regency Buffalo. The Hyatt urban renewal project, which also claimed the adjacent seven-story D. E. Morgan Building and the right-of-way of Genesee Street itself, continued a “demolish to greatness” approach to downtown revitalization that should have been well enough discredited by 1981.

    - The Public, December 5, 2017 (online March 2022)



 



Victor's is the white terra cotta building, demolished for the expansion of the Genesee Building into a Hyatt Hotel.  This was a compromise to save the Genesee Building from demolition.
A. Victor & Company was a well-established Bufgfalo furniture department store when ikt purchased the corner of Geneseee and Pearl and constructed their new 10-story building after 1927. The exterior was white
terra cotta.



Note Goldome Bank/M&T Center at right of Genesee Building









1981

Replaced in part by an add-on building and vehicle drop-off to Hyatt Regency Hotel at the Genesee Building







Historic ad found on the Internet in March 2022







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