Electric Tower - Table of Contents
Board
Rooms - Electric Tower
535 Washington
St., Buffalo NY
 Original Octagonal Tower Board Room chimneypiece / mantelpiece and flanking arched built-in bookcases ... Six mantelpiece details below:  Original Octagonal Tower Mantelpiece detail #1 - Chimneypiece and flanking arched built-in bookcases  Original Octagonal Tower Mantelpiece detail #2 - Board Room chimneypiece: Paneled overmantel ... Fireplace with marble surround  Original Octagonal Tower Mantelpiece detail #3 - Marble entablature ... Marble jambs ... Cast-iron fireback ... Brass andirons  Original Octagonal Tower Mantelpiece detaill #4 - Marble entablature ... Ancone at end of frieze ... Marble jambs  Original Octagonal Tower Mantelpiece detail #5 - Cast-iron fireback: Neptune with his trident ... Brass andirons  Original Octagonal Tower Mantelpiece detail #6 - Brass andiron  Original Octagonal Tower  Original Octagonal Tower Round pediment over door  Original Octagonal Tower Plaster oval molding in the center of the ceiling  Original Octagonal Tower Plaster panel features scrolling acanthus leaves  Original Octagonal Tower Console decorated with acanthus leaf  Original Octagonal Tower  Original Octagonal Tower |
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Original Octagonal Tower |
Original Octagonal Tower |
Original Octagonal Tower |
Original Octagonal Tower |
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Board Room chimneypiece and flanking built-in bookcases |
Board Room chimneypiece:
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Board Room fireplace:
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Board Room. Note round pediment over door |
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Board Room. Round pediment over door |
Board Room. Plaster oval molding in the center of the ceiling |
Board Room. Plaster foliated semicircle |
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Office of Metrodata Services President, Anthony Diina |
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Reception area (receptionist's desk at left behind wooden separator) |
Board Room. Curved Adamesque paneled walls |
Board Room chimneypiece |
Fireplace detail from previous photo |
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Fireplace detail from previous photo |
Board Room. Curved Adamesque paneled walls |
Board Room detail from previous photo. Corinthian pilaster at sides |
Board Room paired Corinthian pilasters |
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Board Room Corinthian pilaster |
Former auditorium. Support girders added in 1995 |
Special thanks to Anthony Diina, President of Metrodata Services, Inc., for his cooperation and assistance in 2004
Photos and their arrangement © 2004 Chuck LaChiusa
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