September 17, 2009
Memories of Grander Times Motivate a Charity's Efforts to Reclaim Buffalo's Central Terminal
Editor's note: Michael Miller, president of the Central Terminal Restoration Corporation, in Buffalo, died August 27 of an apparent heart attack.
Brennen Jensen
Central Terminal Restoration Corporation is working to restore the once-proud Buffalo Central Terminal as the center of a community improvement effort in Buffalo, N.Y.
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Brennen Jensen
Central Terminal Restoration Corporation is working to restore the once-proud Buffalo Central Terminal as the center of a community improvement effort in Buffalo, N.Y.
The New York Central Railroad was on a roll back in 1929, when it completed its Buffalo Central Terminal, filling the massive Art Deco station with marble walls, terrazzo floors, and stylish bronze fixtures and topping it all off with a 15-story office tower. The price tag: $14-million.
Sixty-eight years later, with train traffic long gone and the complex a grimy white elephant, the building was sold to a local charity. The price tag: $1.
For that buck, the Central Terminal
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