Guaranty / Prudential Building, Buffalo

Related people

Byron Manchester (was created by)
Louis Henri Sullivan (architect)
Dankmar Adler (architect)

Date

1895-1896

Description

The Guaranty Building (later named the Prudential Building) is located at 28 Church Street, Buffalo. It is one of the first steel frame high-rise buildings in the world. The building's exterior curtain wall is made of terracotta tiles. Oval milkweed pods inspired one of the patterns for the building's exterior. It was thirteen stories, which made it the tallest building in Buffalo at the time it was built. Keywords: United States, New York, Erie County, views, commercial structures, multistory buildings. Submitted by Byron Manchester, AIA.

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