Fall/Winter 2003 Table of Contents

Grain Elevators Listed on National Register

The results of a 2001 Preserve New York grant made to the Landmark Society of the Niagara Frontier were celebrated in Buffalo on June 25th with the listing of two nationally significant historic grain elevators to the State and National Registers of Historic Places. Bernadette Castro, Commissioner of the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, presented Mayor Anthony Masiello with certificates for the two-city owned structures, the 1912 Wollenberg Grain and Seed Elevator and the 1917 Concrete Central Elevator.

The ceremony was held in conjunction with a meeting of the Erie Canal National Heritage Commission. With the Buffalo River harbor as a backdrop, the commissioner urged that the successful nominations, led by the Landmark Society and funded by the League and the New York State Council on the Arts, inspire new efforts to develop reuse strategies for these elevators that could support the city's waterfront revitalization activities.
Reprinted from New York Preservation Issue 114, the Newsletter of the Preservation League of NYS