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Built in 1929, this 17-story Art Deco-style former passenger railroad station was designed by Fellheimer & Wagner to replace the multiple previous train stations and termini in Buffalo, which were scattered throughout the city and belonged to different railroads. The structure stands on the site of the old Union Depot built in 1874, which closed in the early 1920s. The station began construction in 1925 when the New York Central Railroad settled on building their new union terminal in Buffalo at the site, with the station being built to accommodate the expected growth of Buffalo from a city of about 550,000 people to one with 1.5 million people, and to accommodate continued growth in passenger numbers. However, both of these projections never materialized, with the city’s population growth and the railroad’s passenger numbers growth, already slowing in the 1920s, slowing further due to the Great Depression during the 1930s, and then beginning a long, steady decline, only being briefly buoyed by World War II before falling out of favor as automobile travel proved more flexible and air travel more swift than train travel. Due to these circumstances, the terminal was overbuilt and never reached its full capacity during its operations, only coming close during World War II due to resource shortages and mass mobilization of the United States during wartime. The terminal was offered for sale by the New York Central Railroad for one million dollars in 1956, but found no buyers, with continuing declines in passenger numbers, coupled with the decline in the population of Buffalo itself, leading to several services being ended during the 1950s and 1960s. In 1966, the railroad, in an effort to save costs and downsize their facilities, demolished several outbuildings in the complex, and in 1968, the once powerful New York Central Railroad, a husk of its former self, merged with the Pennsylvania Railroad in an attempt to consolidate their expenses and save both companies, but this merger proved unsuccessful, leading to their bankruptcy in 1976, with both railroads absorbed into the public-private partnership known as Conrail.
In the meantime, Amtrak was formed in 1971 to provide passenger rail service in the United States, operating out of the terminal until 1979, with the agency facing budgetary limitations that did not allow them to renovate the aging structure, which, when coupled with the massive expenses of keeping the building comfortable, dry, and well-lit, led to the agency building two smaller stations in Buffalo during the 1970s to replace it. The terminal was subsequently purchased by Anthony T. Fedele, whom managed to maintain the building in decent condition, but was unable to find any interested developers to reuse the building, and eventually fell behind on taxes, leading to the building being seized at foreclosure so the taxes could be recouped by the government. During the time it was owned by Fedele, the building was vacated by Conrail’s offices between 1980 and 1984, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, with the final operations at the terminal, the interlocking towers that once signaled trains arriving at the station, being shut down in 1985. In 1986, the building was purchased at auction by Thomas Telesco, whom did not maintain the building, selling off many artifacts and fixtures from its interior, and proposing grandiose and unrealistic schemes of what he would do with the building, including being a stop on a high-speed rail line between New York and Toronto. The building was then sold to Bernie Tuchman and Samuel Tuchman, with the building seeing further elements removed and sold, and the building continuing to decay.
In 1997, the terminal, then in poor condition, was purchased by Scott Field of the Preservation Coalition of Erie County, whom paid for the building’s back taxes, and shortly thereafter, formed the Central Terminal Restoration Corporation, transferring ownership of the building to the organization. The building was stabilized and secured under the stewardship of the Central Terminal Restoration Corporation, which opened the building for public tours in 2003, and holds many fundraising events at the station every year. The building has been preserved, but a restoration or adaptive reuse of the structure has so far remained elusive.
The building features a brown brick exterior with an octagonal corner tower, with a large barrel-roofed main concourse structure wrapping around the tower to the south and east. The facade of the tower features multiple setbacks, chamfered corners, corner clock faces at the roofline above the twelfth floor, a rotunda with large archways and buttresses atop the tower with a decorative trim crown at the parapet, vertical window bays that stretch from the building’s base to the roofline, large entrances with metal canopies, large transoms, and stone surrounds, pilasters, and stone trim and caps atop the parapets. The main concourse portion of the building features large arched curtain walls at the ends of its barrel vaulted roof, a cavernous barrel vaulted interior, large metal canopies over the entrances, and a tunnel underneath that once allowed traffic on Curtiss Street to run beneath the building, though this has been closed since the 1980s due to the building’s decay, with a light court between the waiting room and a low-rise office block in the front, which sits just east of the tower and presents a similar facade treatment to that of the tower, with vertically accentuated window bays and pilasters. The rear of the building is more spartan in appearance, with a scar from the former location of the entrance to the train concourse to the rear, with the connecting structure having been removed following the discontinuation of railroad services at the building in 1979. The train concourse features multiple platforms with Art Deco-style aluminum canopies with sleek columns, thin-profile roofs, and rounded ends, with the train concourse featuring arched clerestory windows and a gabled roof, and being in a rather advanced state of deterioration with vegetation having grown throughout the structure and the surrounding abandoned tracks between the platforms. Attached to the southwest corner of the main building is the baggage building, a simpler six-story Art Deco-style structure with a buff brick exterior, a penthouse above the main entrance to the building, pilasters, vertically accentuated window bays, steel windows, stone spandrel panels, stone trim, and stone parapet caps, with long canopies along the base of the front and rear of the building that protected incoming and outgoing mail and baggage from inclement weather. To the west of the baggage building is the one-story mail processing building, which features a similar facade treatment, with the main difference besides height being the rooftop monitor windows in the middle of the building’s roof. Southwest of the baggage and mail processing building, sitting close to Memorial Drive, is a structure that formerly housed the Railway Express Agency, which is more utilitarian than the rest of the surviving complex, and is in an advanced state of decay, with the demolition of the structure being planned to take place sometime this decade. The structure features large window bays with steel windows, stucco cladding on the brick structure, and the remnants of canopies on the north and south facades of the first floor, with a long and low one-story wing to the rear.
The complex is one of the largest designed by Fellheimer & Wagner, and has maintained a remarkable state of preservation in its original form with few changes since its construction, besides some damage from the years of decay and neglect in the 1980s and 1990s. Another notable structure by the firm, and one of the most well-known railroad stations in the world, is Grand Central Terminal in New York City, which was also built for the New York Central Railroad. In addition to Grand Central Terminal, the firm also designed terminals that are more similar in appearance to the Buffalo Central Terminal, including Union Station in South Bend, Indiana, and Cincinnati Union Terminal, with Grand Central Terminal, Buffalo Central Terminal, and Cincinnati Union Terminal being among the largest, most impressive, and most significant railroad stations ever built in the United States. The station, though unrestored, is still impressive, and hopefully will be eventually adaptively reused for an economically sustainable function.
Love, exciting and new
Come Aboard. We're expecting you.
Love, life's sweetest reward.
Let it flow, it floats back to you.
Love Boat soon will be making another run
The Love Boat promises something for everyone
Set a course for adventure,
Your mind on a new romance.
Love won't hurt anymore
It's an open smile on a friendly shore.
Yes LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE! It's LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE! (hey-ah!)
Love Boat soon will be making another run
The Love Boat promises something for everyone
Set a course for adventure,
Your mind on a new romance.
Love won't hurt anymore
It's an open smile on a friendly shore.
It's LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE! It's LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE! It's
LOOOOOOOOOOOVE!
It's the Love Boat-ah! It's the Love Boat-ah!
~The Love Boat Theme by Paul Williams & Charles Fox
We have one girl (as you've probably figured by my flickr pool) and now we're expecting # 2!! I love this fabric combo for the nursery! DH is the decision maker/co-designer. He has the final say on this one. He wants vehicles that look hand drawn/cartoonish. Nothing TOO bold or colorful. This combo fits perfect!
expecting the unexpected.
"It was one night. One night that had bin perfect. Kankuro had even gotten her roses at the end of her mission. They were getting so close, even though he wasn't the greatest at sharing things with her or..anyone..really. But here i am now.....5 months pregnant...my doctor says that they're going to be twins....I dont know what im going to do...by what iv'e heard from him..the people in the Sand village...everyone iv'e come into contact with that knows him..he hates kids..do i tell him...or do i have the children..and jus leave..that seems to be the best of the two....its a good thing he thinks that im jus fat rite now..instead of seeing..an even thinking, sumthing else could be wrong...i really hope the kids get my sense..
cause his sucks."
Jade lie there in her bedroom, on her bed with Kankuro hugging her as he slept. She was wide awake though, thinking all that in her head. She looked over at him, smiling a bit. "So cute..he drools in his sleep.." she muttered quietly, not wanting to wake him. Jade sighed though, looking out her bedroom window to the moon, high in the sky, wondering what she was going to do.
Berlin, Germany - July 19: --- during the 2019 League of Legends European Championship Series Week 5 at the LEC Studio (Photo by Michal Konkol/Riot Games)
As expected, they are slick...
I left the house at 1140 with +13C temperatures and expected some rain for later in the afternoon. I felt the first few drops turning the corner at the end of the block as I was finishing my ride. It may not be the last ride, but it will be the last warm one...
Don't expect to see the most beautiful and pristine formations in the world at Longhorn Caverns, because they're not here. However, there are still several points of natural awe and beauty in the cave. And what Longhorn Caverns lacks in formations it makes up for in historical interest. There are legends and rumors - of fossils, Confederates, outlaws, Indians, a kidnapping, and even an old underground dance hall. The entrance to the cavern is particularly dramatic, underneath an impressive natural bridge. I consider this Texas Hill Country cavern a "Must See" for those who are in the area.
The regular guided tour through the cave is a 1.25 mile round trip and takes 1.5 hours to complete. There is a little climbing involved, but the average person should have no problem making it.
In addition to the cavern, the state park offers shaded picnic tables, nature trails, an exhibit center, gift shop, and snack bar. There is no campground.
A $10 fee is charged per adult for the cavern tour. Other ammenities in the park, picnic areas, trails, exhibit center, etc., are free. The park is open 363 days a year.
Would expect this at the corner shop (if I had one) but the biggest retailer in the UK?
Also not sure whether they actually have a lottery or if it's a gamble what you find in store.
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(Not As You Would Expect) Fairy Tales on the Fourth Plinth (One and Other) performance art in Trafalgar Square, London.
Once upon a time, there was a little princess, who sat upon a big stone plinth in the square and told deliciously dark fairy tales, just because everybody likes storytime
in the afternoon. She took her dearest companion, Mr Teddy, with his very best black satin bow, and wore her favourite green taffeta party dress, and had a nice cup
of tea and some ginger beer.
Miss Leanna (From The One and Other site - edited)
all the houses to look similar to this but instead a lot of them are modern style homes. But there are some really beautiful oriental homes here! More pics to come!
Dan Carlsen on his run, he is from FW and in his 1928 For Model A Tudor (Ford's vintage term for two-door). A timed hill climb event in Granbury was the first activity of the four-day 47th Annual Texas Tour for vintage Model A Fords and their owners. Club members are expecting as many as 200 cars from as far away as Florida, Missouri and other cities inTexas. Photographed in Granbury, Texas, Wednesday, June 9, 2010. (Copyright Fort Worth Star-Telegram/Paul Moseley) May not be downloaded, copied or reproduced for any reason. Check out a great newspaper at www.star-telegram.com/
How We Learn
NPR's "Tell Me More" 8:30 - 9:00 AM doors open, breakfast served; 9:00 - 10:00 AM LIVE SHOW
8:30 am - 10:00 am MDT on Tuesday, July 2, 2013
(Tickets Required) Join NPR's "Tell Me More" for three captivating discussions: In the first, we look at the ways innovations in education are transforming learning experiences for today’s students. Gone are the days when music class was just about listening to Mozart and math class was taught the same way to every student. For the second discussion, we hear from Shabana Basij-Rasikh, who was willing to risk her life in her native Afghanistan for an education. She would finish high school in the United States, eventually graduating from Middlebury College two years ago. Now she speaks about a school she co-founded in Afghanistan that helps young women access education at home and abroad. And finally, we address parenting your twentysomething. No shortage of articles have been written about young people in their twenties, who aren’t making enough money but are making less-than-stellar life decisions. Yet, some suggest that rather than expecting the worst from our 20-year-olds, we ought to set the bar high.
Jessie Woolley-Wilson Lawrence Scripp Joseph P. Parkes Meg Jay Michel Martin Shabana Basij-Rasikh Pamela Cantor Danny Kim
Hotel Jerome Ballroom
taken with an underwater camera; this is the only picture that even kind of looked okay :( but hey, the camera was only 3 dollars, so I wasn't expecting much anyway!
Aerial view of the Kentucky Horse Park the morning of Eventing's cross country stage. Expected to be one of the highest attendance days during the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games.
A mother's joy begins when new life is stirring inside... when a tiny heartbeat is heard for the very first time, and a playful kick reminds her that she is never alone.
-- Author Unknown
Hi everyone!
Yeah, finally posting something and the reason is that I have received my expected print from my flickr friend Hydrophobic Heffalump and an Unexpected post card from my friend Baek from Korea!
Yes, I am very happy with both presents!
And yes, I will try to start again to post photos... and also, a new little project will start!
Great night you all!!!
Peace!
As you'd expect for IKEA this item has a daft name.
"Big and safe to have at your side if you want to discover the world underneath the sea. The blue shark can swim very far, dive really deep and hear your heart beating from far away."
www.ikea.com/gb/en/products/childrens-ikea-products/child...
Growing a bit slower then i expected, but getting greener and greener. Currently i see some algae on the tank which i need to take care of.
Expecting to be at least 30 years old when clicked
P 6 engine, 5+1 gearbox, 2 piece rear axle, air and oil brake, it was coming the year end 1984
Info Courtesy : TATA group @FB
Always expect the unexpected when it comes to distribution of basic Hot Wheels especially here in the U.K. One branch of a certain retailer may have cases dating back 12 months or more and another just a few miles away are as up to date as anywhere! I certainly wasn't expecting to see 2018 Batch C so quickly but one ASDA store came up good and now i'm the proud owner of two of these newly recoloured Datsun Fairlady 2000 models. A wonderful little casting of the original 60's Fairlady 2000 and a brief and unhindered warning at the time of what the Japanese were capable of perfectly miniaturised here even if its colour and licensed Fifteen52 logo seems a bit too modern for its era. Mint and boxed.
i had my first track meet of the season on Thursday, which was great. I got 3rd in 100, 2nd in 200, 3rd in longjump, and our 4x4 team got 1st. Which means that we just might win league this year!
Anyways, we went to my friend Allison's grandpa's house (she's in the picture before this one) and the hills were supposed to be covered in flowers, but they weren't. Plus the light was crap. So, we wandered up and down the mountain and tried to find shade that wasn't too dark (reflector coming in the mail, thank goodness). I think i got a few good ones, but I am afraid of getting too repetitive in shoots.
But i am so happy. I feel like i've rediscovered photography.
p.s. meet kelsey(: