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Alexander's Lounge, 46 Sweeney

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Alexander's, ink and watercolor (Dennis Reed Jr). If yous are expecting Alexander'south to have a colorful past, you will not exist disappointed. Since 1890,…

Allan Herschell Companies

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An 1894 Armitage-Herschell advertisement shows a not-at-all-dangerous-to-children-looking steam banality and pulleys providing motive ability to the…

Artizan Factories Inc.

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The simply known photograph of the Artizan Factories Inc. building in its vii years of functioning; published in a 1926 industrial survey. From the…

Auto-Wheel Coaster Visitor

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Employees of the Motorcar-Wheel Coaster Company's Northward Tonawanda plant. PHOTO: Northward Tonawanda History MuseumOrganized as the Buffalo Sled Co. in 1905 by…

Avondale Theatre (Oliver Theater)

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This former theatre at the 358 Oliver Street was razed in the late 1980s, and is now but a memory. Interneteer Joe Vogel offers the post-obit…

B. P. O. Elks Gild 860

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The Elks Club home c1920–2011; northeast corner of Principal and Sweeney.The Due north Tonawanda chapter of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks…

Bennett Lumber Company

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Island and Primary Streets. Bennett began his lumber business at Main and Island Streets as Hoadley and Bennett in 1902, somewhen expanding to 190…

Blue Whale Automobile Wash

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The Blue Whale as a steel-girded tadpole, ca 1972.The Blueish Whale Car Wash seemed harmless enough: a building-size mass of periwinkle fiberglass…

Boathouse Park, Weatherbest Slip

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PHOTO: Dennis Reed Jr. Effectually the junction of Tonawanda Creek and the "Little River" three small slips cutting into the land. The slips were dug in the…

Boulton Carbon Manufacturing Company

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West. H. Boulton'south Cleveland company manufactured carbons used in arc lighting. From Wikipedia: Past 1894, he had formed the Boulton & Crown Carbon…

Buffalo Bolt Company

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Formerly situated on Oliver Street near Due east Ave., this longtime employer got its showtime in Amsterdam, N.Y. in 1855. They moved to a modest ii-story…

Buffalo Norsemen Hockey Club

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This hockey team played a single season (1975-1976) in the NAHL at the Tonawanda Sports Center in Due north Tonawanda.

Buffalo Pumps

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A general early description of the plant my be institute at fultonhistory.com: "The Pump Works." Tonawanda News, August 24, 1893.

City Hall

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The former North Tonawanda Urban center Hall was located on the southeast corner of Main and Tremont. The current N Tonawanda Urban center Hall and police station…

DeGraff Mansion

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On April 30, 1885, James H. DeGraff and his family moved into the elegant mansion at the corner of Payne and Goundry. It was the showtime residence in…

Downtown

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Almost of North Tonawanda'south downtown area developed between 1875 and 1900. In this collection are preserved views of many vanished buildings: The YMCA…

Dreamland (Strand Theater)

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The Strand at Oliver and 1st opened as a silent movie and vaudeville theater on June 24, 1914, and was originally named "Dreamland." Information technology joined several…

Early Days of the Tonawandas

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These book excerpts and articles shed calorie-free on the earliest days of the Tonawandas, every bit well as the nearby villages of Martinsville, Sawyer'southward Station,…

Ellicott Creek Estates (Tonawanda)

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In the mid 1920s, the area between Tonawanda and Ellicott Creeks most Niagara Falls Blvd. was aggressively marketed for auction to prospective homebuyers…

Erie Bridge

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The Erie Bridge at Vandervoort carried Erie Railroad trains, electric streetcars--and manifestly courageous pedestrians across the Tonawanda Creek and…

Erie Culvert

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The Erie Canal in Due north Tonawanda followed the existing Tonawanda Creek from Pendleton. The get-go work done locally was the 1823 construction of a…

Felton High School and Grammer Schoolhouse

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Built in 1901, the visually striking Felton High School once stretched along Thompson Street betwixt Bryant and Falconer streets. Information technology would later on be…

Firefighters

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Rough chronology at NT History Museum, including notes nigh many defunct companies. A provocative (if unlikely-sounding) morsel well-nigh Hydrant Hose…

Outset Baptist Church

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The First Baptist Church of North Tonawanda is built in 1888 at 190 Vandervoort Street. On May 30, 1965 the congregation commences worship at their…

Gillie, Goddard and Company, (etc).

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William One thousand. Gillie'due south primary foundry and found is located on Goose Isle at Tonawanda and Anecdote. In September 1892 a massive fire destroys some of…

Gilmore School

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Calls had been made for over a decade for a new schoolhouse to serve the city'south Ironton district (Public School #vii). Opens in 1926. For the first few years…

Goerss's Dairy

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The W. C. Goerss Dairy is started in Martinsville in 1925 by Wilmer C. Goerss. Information technology seems likely that his blood brother Gerhart is involved early on. Past 1937…

Goose Island

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Goose Isle equally seen from Tonawanda Island, postcard detail, ca 1913. "Goose Island" wasn't a real island: it was a triangular hunk of land in…

Goundry Street Expanse

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From the village'due south earliest days, Goundry Street was a showcase of its nearly luxurious homes. Wealthy lumber barons and bankers settled here, enjoying…

Goundry Street School

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The Goundry Street School was a stone building constructed in 1866. From History of Niagara Canton 1821-1878 (1878): The North Tonawanda Union School…

Gratwick (Neighborhood)

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The White, Gratwick & Mitchell Lumber Visitor establishes a planing mill and substantial lumberyards forth the Niagara River in 1879. They employ…

Gratwick Schoolhouse

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Opens in 1894, 2 years after Pino Woods school, and five years after the second public schoolhouse, Ironton (According to a 1979 News commodity).

Hannah Johnson

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(ca. 1799 - 1883) Hannah Johnson is a Black woman who lived with her husband John in the predominantly white township of Wheatfield, almost the village…

Hope-Jones Organ Co. (of Elmira)

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Troubled, eccentric English genius Robert Hope-Jones came to the U.South. in 1903. In 1907 he formed the Hope-Jones Organ Co. in Elmira, N.Y. (Mark Twain…

Hotel Sheldon

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Postcard, c1890This massive hotel once occupied the southeast corner of Goundry and Main. A general description from Lumber Urban center (1891): Nothing is…

International Paper Visitor

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(1898-1975?) The International Newspaper occupied the northern edge of Tonawanda Isle for over 50 years, processing lumber for utilize in magazines and…

Ironton / Avenues (Neighborhood)

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Looking east over the Avenues from the Niagara River. 2016 Google Globe Niagara Furnace (later, Tonawanda Atomic number 26 and Steel) begins producing fe…

Ironton School

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Ironton Public School #two opened in 1889 at the corner of 1st Ave and Oliver Street (present-twenty-four hour period Elizabeth Harvey Apartments / Olmsted Center for…

Linde Telly

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(c1953-1982) The 1950s TV craze peaked in 1954 and 1955, with sales topping seven 1000000 sets each of those years. One of the companies feeding the…

Lumber Scenes

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Map of the Lumber District of the Tonawandas in 1893.

Martinsville

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Old Falls Boulevard, looking northward from Lockport Ave. to Niagara Falls Blvd. Postcard detail, c.1900. The northeast part of Due north Tonawanda known as…

Melody Fair

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This little theater drew an impressive array of stars to North Tonawanda, and it saddened the hearts of many to watch it fall into disuse in the 90s…

Mitch's Del-Taco (474 Oliver)

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An Oliver Street favorite since 1978, "Mitch" at present slings tacos at Mitch'due south Full general Store (9005 E Otto Springville Rd, Eastward Otto, NY 14729).

North Tonawanda Barrel Organ Factory

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Architect's rendering of the North Tonawanda Barrel Organ Factory (Tonawanda News, 1894) (1893-1903) The Northward Tonawanda Barrel Organ Factory is…

Park Theater

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Goundry Street. Notices as early every bit 1905, though unclear if they apply to this location (some other "Park" was in Buffalo).

Payne Estate

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The surface area north of Wheatfield Street and on both sides of Payne Artery--formerly the farm and dwelling of early on resident and major landholder Colonel…

Pettit Creek

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A 1908 map depicts the course of the State Ditch, which was originally Pettit Creek. The background photograph shows the mouth of the creek at the…

Pino Woods Park

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"Sweeney Park Entrance." Postcard, c. 1920 The largest park in North Tonawanda is as well the oldest. Originally named "Sweeney Park," information technology is comprised…

Rand Companies

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The Rand family powerfully shaped North Tonawanda'due south early banking and business landscape over several generations of enterprising men, and were a…

Remington Tavern (184 Sweeney)

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Built in 1895 for trolleys, the squat orange-brick building was subsequently used by carousel and motor builders Herschell-Spillman and the…

Richardson Gunkhole Company

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From the Richardson Boat Owners Association website: In 1909 K.Reid Richardson founded the Richardson Boat Company in North Tonawanda, New York to…

Sweeney Cemetery

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From History of Niagara County 1821-1878 (1878): The village has a cemetery, which was organized nether the statute, in the year 1868. The…

The Swing Bridges

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April 21 1883 "An human activity to incorporate the Tonawanda Island Bridge Visitor, for the purpose of constructing and operating a span from Tonawanda isle…

Thiele's Dairy

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At that place were several Thiele'due south locations: The original was on Shawnee Route (the farm, out on Niagara Falls Blvd. in the Martinsville / Sawyer Creek…

Tonawanda Brewing Company

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The northeast corner of Hinds and Niagara Streets in Tonawanda hosted a succession of breweries. According toThe History of Brewing in Tonawanda, New…

Tonawanda Atomic number 26 and Steel

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Yous wouldn't know it from the site today, but the massive plant of the Tonawanda Iron and Steel Visitor in one case occupied all the land along the Niagara…

Tonawanda Island

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1860 illustration showing the southern tip of Tonawanda Isle. The lavish Beechwater residence and a smaller building are seen to the left of a…

Tonawanda Kardex Lumbermen

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This Tonawandas football game society was a fellow member of the NFL--for a single "away" game in 1921. They lost that game (against the Rochester Jeffersons) 45-0.…

Tonawanda Sports Centre (Sportsplex)

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In April 1974 structure began on the massive Twin City Racquet Club / Tonawanda Sports Center circuitous on Ridge Road in Due north Tonawanda, behind the…

Trolleys and Trains

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Before everybody in North Tonawanda could afford their very ain muffler-less Honda Civic to run upwardly and downward Oliver Street, trolleys and trains were an…

Webster to Main Street Bridges

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(?-1916): Long bridge (1918-1978) A "Bascule" bridge (which could open up to allow masted boats to pass) one time connected Webster Street in Northward Tonawanda…

Wurlitzer Manufacturing Company

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The signature tower of the North Tonawanda plant and occasional headquarters. Postcard, c.1940. Its iconic tower has presided over Sawyer's Creek and…

Wurlitzer Park

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Existent manor developers begin marketing the "Wurlitzer Park Village" equally a safety, family-friendly escape from the crumbling and industrialized portions of…

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