Download or read book Memories of Early Days in Buffalo (Classic Reprint) written by Sylvester J. Mathews and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Memories of Early Days in Buffalo Architecturally speaking, the style of buildings at that period was somewhat mixed. Beginning with the old red warehouse at the foot of Main street, on which was painted in big white letters E. W. Munger, Ship Chandlery, Storage and Forwarding, and passing up were to be noted some very loud examples of old-time boss carpenters' designing. Across the street, ' at the junction of Ohio street, was a block of three-story brick buildings, extending up to Washington street, with a frontage on the dock and also on Ohio street, which went by the name of Ohio Buildings, in which was a little of everything. On the opposite corner was a jumble of one and two-story wood buildings on the site of which was subsequently erected the Commercial Hotel.1 A little further up to the left George B. Vvalbridge Co. Had lately erected a fine large four-story lemon-colored front, whole sale grocery house and were doing the big grocery business of the town. This building was burned one night during the late '4o's, when young Calvin Bishop, one of the clerks sleeping there, lost his life. All that was ever found of him, after a search of nearly a week, was a small charred mass containing his heart. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.