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Abandoned Buffalo Central Station
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Wonderful set, I love that station, wish I could see it someday.
Thanks for posting.
Believe it or not, in 1900, Buffalo had more millionaires per capita than any other city in the USA.
Great photos – it’s quite similar to Grand Central station, NYC. I wonder what those dolls and puppets are doing there?
Stunning! Sad and amazing!
That’s quite a shame. Cincinnati has a station of similar vintage and years ago turned it into a phenomenal museum center that houses two museums – local history and natural history.
Hah! Thanks so much. I passed this station a train ride from Chicago to Rochester, and I snapped some photos of it, wishing I could have a look inside. And now I can.
I’d love to see some Federal stimulus money go towards rehabbing Central Terminal. What an vital asset it would be to the neighborhood & create so many jobs.
I grew up in Buffalo and ran through this place as a kid back in the 90′s. It was a fixture of the neighborhood so it didn’t get beat up as bad as some other places. I’m happy to say that it has been rescued and is being restored. The main concourse is now used for Art showings and other social events.
Whoever posted this is way off base. The Central Terminal has not been “abandoned”. Many of these photographs are old, and from various sources.
The Central Terminal is still used, albeit sparingly for events.
Lovely building. Even if it is being restored, if it’s for use as an arts centre, it speaks volumes about the American’s worship of the car!
Bet it was a great lady in her prime. We restored Union Station here in Kansas City, and for around $200 million, and it was done beautifully. Hopefully, the people of Buffalo will restore this one and find a great use for it. Beautiful architectural style and features like this are becoming rare and few and far between, seeing as how everything has to be slapped together as cheaply as possible to generate as much profit as possible. Don’t let the old girl die, pull her back from the precipice and away from all of these cold, heartless, demonic real estate developers who’d tear it down and build another ugly shopping mall….
Oddly enough, this abandoned train station was the set for a Tibetan music video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqQIcMBCgQ0
Steve, just FYI, real estate developers are not necessarily the enemy. Historic preservation projects are also headed by developers unless they’re gov’t projects. And while the new-construction developers are *an* enemy, they’re not *the* enemy; time and neglect destroy more historic buildings than anything else. So really, preservation is everyone’s responsibility!
What’s with the room with all the doll heads?
Abandoned wreckage in the middle of a booming place like New York State?? Impossible!
Interesting to stumble onto this site and this photo gallery in particular. I just finished reading a book about Buffalo at the turn of the last century and the development of hydroelectric power at the time. “City of Light” by Lauren Belfer is a work of fiction wrapped in factual happenings and actual people. The Exposition, the assassination of Pres. McKinley, hydroelectric power from Niagra…It’s facinating and so is this building which was obviously part of this era. I hope it does get restored. Too beautiful to leave to ruin.
“Abandoned wreckage in the middle of a booming place like New York State?? Impossible!”
Maybe that would be true if it were in NYC, but New York State is not really what I’d call “booming” from what I saw of it!
Where in Buffalo is this?? My mom lives there & I’d love to check it out next time I’m there!
Stunning. A cathedral to travel. Did they build a newer station? Can’t imagine it could beat this for grandeur.