Concrete-Central Elevator

Concrete-Central Elevator
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Concrete-Central Elevator
Location:	175 Buffalo River, Buffalo, New York
Coordinates:	42°51′37″N 78°51′20″W / 42.86028°N 78.85556°W / 42.86028; -78.85556Coordinates: 42°51′37″N 78°51′20″W / 42.86028°N 78.85556°W / 42.86028; -78.85556
Area:	3 acres (1.2 ha)
Built:	1915
Architect:	Wait, H.R.; Monarch Engineering Co.
Governing body:	Local
MPS:	Buffalo Grain and Materials Elevator MPS
NRHP Reference#:	03000410[1]
Added to NRHP:	May 19, 2003

Concrete-Central Elevator is a historic grain elevator located on the Buffalo River at Buffalo in Erie County, New York. It was built between 1915 and 1917, and was used for grain storage until 1966. Concrete Central stretches along the Buffalo River for almost a quarter of a mile and was the largest transfer elevator in the world at the time of its completion in 1917. ^[2] It's also the largest elevator ever built in the Buffalo area. When in operation, it had the capacity to handle a total of 4.5 million bushels of grain. The elevator allowed crews to load and unload 20 railroad cars an hour, three marine legs could load and unload three massive lake freighters at one time.

Following 1966, Concrete-central changed ownership multiple times but sat idle. ^[3] In 1975 concrete-central was abandoned as a derelict property. Machinery, furniture and metal have been looted from the building leaving it an unsecured empty shell to this day. In 1976, a young boy was killed in a fall after climbing to the roof of the building.^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html. 
2. ^ ^{a b} Thomas E. Leary, John R. Healey and Elizabeth C. Sholes (1991). "Wilson River Bridge, HAER No. NY-243". Historic American Engineering Record. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.ny1671::. Retrieved 2011-04-11. 
3. ^ Claire L. Ross (September 2002). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Concrete-Central Elevator". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=11491. Retrieved 2009-08-02.  See also: "Accompanying four photos". http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=11508. 

External links

• Concrete--Central Elevator - U.S. National Register of Historic Places on Waymarking.com
• Concrete Central Grain Elevator, Buffalo, New York on Urban Exploration - Undercity.org
• Concrete-Central Elevator, 175 Buffalo River, Buffalo, Erie County, NY: 1 drawing, 30 photos, 41 data pages, and 2 photo caption pages at Historic American Building Survey
• Skyscraperpage building page
• Emporis building page