File:Courier Express Building, Buffalo, New York - 20190822.jpg

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English: The building at 785 Main Street at the north end of Buffalo's Theater District, built in 1930 as the home of the Buffalo Courier-Express and, subsequently to that, the Chancery of the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo, who took over the building in 1985. Design motifs that are emblematic of the Art Deco style and/or pay homage to the printing industry include:
  • miniature niche statues in glazed terra cotta depicting famous printers of history such as Christophe Plantin and Benjamin Franklin (top of façade, crowning columns between windows)
  • stylized spandrel panels between the rows of windows, almost redolent of Art Nouveau, in a Celtic motif in reference to the Irish-American heritage of the Conners family, longtime owners of the Courier-Express
  • the text of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, engraved into both the Main Street (west) and Goodell Street (south) façades of the building above the spandrel panel crowning the ground-floor windows
  • bas-relief sculptures depicting the history of the printing process (on the columns separating the ground-floor windows)
  • cast-bronze printers' marks above the main entrance, flanked by Art Deco sconces
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Author Andre Carrotflower
Camera location42° 53′ 44.61″ N, 78° 52′ 15.53″ W  Heading=169.04367053621° Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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