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62 Allen Street is one of several highly articulated and elegantly detailed commercial buildings in Buffalo. Its simple charm gives this portion of Allen a unique character. The street front is composed almost completely of glass allowing for light and activity to spill out onto the sidewalk. It has a friendly spirit few buildings achieve. Its colonnaded, pavilion like form supporting a red tile roof hints that this building may have been influenced by Buffalo's Pan American Exposition. The building delicately curves around the corner at Franklin Street and sits comfortably with its western neighbor even though it is of a completely different character. Its roof gently overhangs the sidewalk giving a sense of protection and definition of space. This kind of elegance and attention to detail suggests that it originally housed upscale shops serving the nearby Delaware Avenue elite rather than the work-a-day butchers and hardware dealers found in more ordinary buildings. The storefronts are mostly original making this building even more special.
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martin kemp
i may be wrong, but i was led to believe that at one time allen did cater to the nearby mansions, a women told me that as a young girl she would remember seeing the big cars picking up furs, cleaning and items at speciality shops, would make an interesting story.
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