Statler Hotel - Table of Contents..........................E. M. Statler - Table of Contents
Statler
Hotel
- Exterior
107
Delaware Avenue. Northeast corner of Delaware
at Niagara Square
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Architect: |
George B. Post & Sons (who also designed Erie County Savings Bank) |
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Interior designer: |
Louis Rorimer |
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Style: |
Renaissance Revival |
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Erected: |
1921-1923 |
George B. Post and Son designed the Statler Hotel at 107 Delaware Avenue. Many hotels erected nationally by Ellsworth M. Statler followed. The presence of the Renaissance Revival Statler at Niagara Square (where it replaced the Hollister-Fillmore house/Hotel Fillmore/Castle Inn) accelerated the commercial development that gradually overtook the two-mile stretch of Delaware Avenue between downtown and North Street.
Smith Salisbury, editor, owner and publisher of the Buffalo Gazette, the city's first newspaper, also lived on property that has been included in the Hotel Statler site. The first location of Bryant and Stratton's Business college was covered, too, by the towering hotel.
By 1919, when Statler decided to erect his nineteen-story hotel - said to have been the largest building in the state outside of New York City - there were twenty-four businesses along lower Delaware Avenue.
History of the site:
