The story
America's first hotel with a private bathroom in every room revolutionized hospitality before becoming a vacant lot for 20 years.
Everything that was here
- 1907–1967
Hotel Buffalo (Original Statler Hotel)Hotel
America's first hotel with a private bathroom in every room revolutionized hospitality before becoming a vacant lot for 20 years.
See the map in 1908 → - 1922–1962
Lafayette TheatreTheater
Buffalo's largest theater showed the first 'talkie' in the city and housed a $50,000 Wurlitzer organ—whose brass trumpet still plays today at a local synagogue.
See the map in 1923 →
Nearby history
German Insurance Company Building
1 Lafayette Square · 154 m away
Colored Musicians Club
145 Broadway · 378 m away
Erie County Savings Bank
1 Niagara Street · 430 m away
AM&A's (Adam, Meldrum & Anderson)
766 Main Street · 921 m away
The Cloister Restaurant
472 Delaware Avenue · 1.2 km away
The Old Pink
223 Allen Street · 1.5 km away
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