Marine Bank / HSBC / The Marin - Table of Contents

EXTERIOR - Marine Midland Bank / The Marin
237 Main Street, Buffalo NY

Built:

1915

Architects:

Green & Wicks

Builders:

Lnquist and Illsey

Exterior stone:

Granite from Stinchfield Quarry, near Hallowell, Maine (source)

Style:

Italian Renaissance Revival Commercial Building

Status:

Joseph Ellicott Historic Preservation District
2005 Bank name:
Marine Midland Bank
2021 Building name: The Marin


2015 Photos


 2015 photo            Left tower:  Old Post Office / ECC                     Center building:  237 Main DStreet                Right : Marine Midland / Seneca One



 2015 photo                   Looking north on Main Street                       237 Main Street at far right



 2015 photo             South elevation              Sculpture at right:  Vroom Shhh  at  Seneca One             2020 exterior walls were added to the Seneca One complex 





September 27, 2021 Photos


Façade (west elevation) on Main Street



First an second stories feature rustication                 Center entrance arch, including voussoirs and keystone            Five details below:


Upper floor has Flemish bond brick pattern                     Pedimented window caps



Pedimented window cap on third floor                   Cross shaped brick design flank windows



Portruding stone course               Dentil molding                 Bellflowers



Dentil molding under cornice                  Paired flutes and bellflowers



Keystone: the ship that served as Marine Midland Bank's corporate symbol



Ship's hull                  Ropes and anchor                Paired ancones               Laurel leaves



The Admiral Room



East elevation                     Lower right:  In 2020 exterior walls and buildings were added to the  Seneca One complex



East elevation                Unusual  brick bond using headers and stretchers



East elevation                       Triangular pediment supported by ancone                Dentil molding              Rusticated stones





September 2021 Photos


Lower right:  Buffalo Bisons Baseball Stadium





Photos and their arrangement © 2021 Chuck LaChiusa
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