Buffalo S Grain Elevators
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Buffalo S Grain Elevators
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Author : Henry H. Baxter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
Buffalo S Grain Elevators written by Henry H. Baxter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Grain elevators categories.
A history of the evolution of grain elevators and milling in Buffalo (1825-1973).
History Of The Grain Elevators Of Buffalo New York
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Author : William J. Brown
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
History Of The Grain Elevators Of Buffalo New York written by William J. Brown and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
The world's single most important commodity, grain does not exist separately from the collection and storage units and the transportation systems that bring it from the farm to market. Invented in Buffalo, New York, in 1843, as a solution to a particular problem, the steam-powered grain elevator ended up being of such general utility that it led to the rapid growth of American agriculture and thus to the rise of the country as a whole. Over the course of this history, Brown tries to answer these fundamental questions: how can something as important as grain elevators be completely unknown to the majority of people who depend upon them for their daily bread? What is it about grain elevators that so fascinate the people who are "in" on their secret? The answers, Brown finds, lie in the nature of capitalism and the mysteries of childhood.
American Chartres
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2016-11-01
American Chartres written by and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-01 with Photography categories.
Documents the city’s surviving grain elevators and their profound influence on twentieth-century architecture. On a visit to Buffalo, New York, the French poet Dominique Fourcade was awed by the huge concrete grain elevators that line the city’s river and lakefront. Turning to his guide, the poet Susan Howe, he exclaimed, “The American Chartres!” Taking Fourcade’s exclamation as its title, Bruce Jackson’s American Chartres documents Buffalo’s surviving grain elevators, capturing these monumental buildings in all seasons and in various light; from the Buffalo River, the Ship Canal, and Lake Erie; from inside and from the top floors and roofs; in detail and in toto. Invented in Buffalo by Robert Dunbar and Joseph Dart, the city’s first grain elevator went operational in 1843. By the mid-1850s, Buffalo was the world’s largest grain port, and would remain so well into the twentieth century. Grain elevators made Buffalo rich, and they were largely responsible for the development of the Port of New York. While primarily functional objects, designed to move grain from one transportation modality to another, grain elevators are also beautiful structures, and they exerted a profound influence on many twentieth-century architects. Walter Gropius, one of the founders of the Bauhaus, collected photographs of American grain elevators and published two of Buffalo’s elevators in 1913. The great Modernist architect Erich Mendelsohn came to Buffalo to photograph them in 1924, and they also influenced the practice of architects such as Le Corbusier and the Italian futurist Antonio Sant’Elia. More recently, the conceptual artists and photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher have included grain elevators in their documentation of industrial structures in Europe and North America. Despite their deep impact on twentieth-century architecture, Buffalo’s grain elevators remained underappreciated. As they outlived their economic usefulness, many were destroyed. Only recently have local residents realized what treasures they are. Beautifully illustrated with more than 160 color photographs, this book documents what remains. An accomplished author, photographer, and filmmaker, Bruce Jackson is SUNY Distinguished Professor and James Agee Professor of American Culture at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. He is also codirector of the university’s Creative Arts Initiative. His numerous books include Inside the Wire: Photographs from Texas and Arkansas Prisons.
The Life And Death Of Buffalo S Great Northern Grain Elevator
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Author : Bruce Jackson
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2024-04-01
The Life And Death Of Buffalo S Great Northern Grain Elevator written by Bruce Jackson and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-01 with Architecture categories.
Archer Daniels Midland got lucky the night of December 11, 2021: a fierce winter wind took out a third of the brick wall of Buffalo's Great Northern Grain Elevator. ADM had wanted to demolish the building since 1993, but each of its demolition requests to the city had been blocked. Six days after the storm, with no public hearings, the building was condemned. A unique piece of Buffalo's economic and global architectural history was gone. Grain elevators are part of Buffalo's—and the nation's—architectural heritage. Unlike earlier wooden structures, the Great Northern was made of steel; it was fireproof. The steel bins kept the grain dry and the rats out. The entire steel structure was riveted and bolted into a single entity. The Great Northern couldn't burn down or blow up; it couldn't be knocked down, and it was incapable of falling down. When the Great Northern was completed seven months after the shovels broke ground, it was the largest grain elevator in the world. It was built to last, and last it did until the eight-month task of tearing it apart began on September 16, 2022. Photographer and activist Bruce Jackson documents the story of this key architectural landmark through text, documents, and his own photographs taken over a period of several decades to tell this tragic story that will appeal to anyone interested in the history and preservation of America's industrial culture.
Grain Dust Dreams
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Author : David W. Tarbet
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 2015-06-26
Grain Dust Dreams written by David W. Tarbet and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-26 with History categories.
Explores the history and present-day reality of grain elevators on the Great Lakes. Grain Dust Dreams tells the story of terminal grain elevatorsconcrete colossi that stand in the middle of a deep river of grain that they lift, sort, and send on. From their invention in Buffalo, New York, through their present-day operation in Thunder Bay, Ontario, David W. Tarbet examines the difficulties and dangers of working in a grain elevatorshowing how they operate and describing the effects that the grain trade has on the lives of individuals and cities. As Tarbet shows, the impact of these impressive concrete structures even extends beyond their working lives. Buildings that were created for a commercial purpose had a surprising and unintended cultural consequence. European modernist architects were taken by the size and elegance of American concrete elevators and used them as models for a revolution in architecture. When the St. Lawrence Seaway made it possible for large ships to bypass Buffalo, many Buffalo elevators were abandoned. Tarbet describes how these empty elevators are now being transformed into centers for artistic and athletic performance, and into a hub for technical innovation. Buffalo has found a way to incorporate its unused elevators into the life of the city long after the grain dust from them has ceased to fly. Grain Dust Dreams is a miniaturist masterpiece. David Tarbet was raised in a Canadian grain shipping hub, and takes us on a fond and fascinating tour of the history, the culture, and the technology of North American grain elevators. Beautifully written and rigorously researched, Grain Dust Dreams is an unusually charming addition to industrial history. Charles R. Morris, author of The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution Drawing on personal experience, David Tarbet writes with authority. This is an important subject presented in a manner thats accessible to all. Thorold Tronrud, Director, Thunder Bay Historical Museum Grain Dust Dreams is an intimate and personal account of the impact of the grain industry on two North American communities. The reader will be transported into the inner workings of a grain elevator, and uncover the significance the elevators had on the communities in which they reside. Readers will also enjoy the personal accounts from workers in these engineering marvels along with the hazards encountered by their operators. Tarbet also explores the perplexing question many communities face: how to repurpose these majestic structures so that they last for posterity. Tim Bohen, author of Against the Grain: The History of Buffalos First Ward
Reconsidering Concrete Atlantis
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Author : Landmark Society of the Niagara Frontier
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007-01-01
Reconsidering Concrete Atlantis written by Landmark Society of the Niagara Frontier and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with Architecture and history categories.
The Buffalo Grain Elevater Project begun in 2001 with grants from the National Endowment for the Arts ant the New york State Counhcil on the Arts/Preservation League, wad built on the work of many people and organizations. Its goal were to take the next step in the perservation of the elevators through their nomination to the National Register of Historic Places and renew a conversation about the future of these artifacts ant their role in the changing economic and cultural structure of the region. This book is a record of the community effort on behalf of the Buffalo grain elevators through a project by the Landmark Society of the Niagara Frontier and the Urban Design Project of the University of Buffalo/SUNY. It describes the efforts of academics, perservationists, community people and funding agencies; it builds on the efforts of those who have been working for many years; and it gives hope to all who will continue in this project.
American Colossus The Grain Elevator 1843 To 1943
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Author : William J. Brown
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2009
American Colossus The Grain Elevator 1843 To 1943 written by William J. Brown and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
The first full-length history of the American grain elevator, from 1843 to 1943. Eight black and white illustrations, appendix, index, bibliography.
Buffalo Architecture
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Author : Reyner Banham
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 1981-10-19
Buffalo Architecture written by Reyner Banham and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981-10-19 with Architecture categories.
Buffalo's rich architectural and planning heritage has attracted the attention of several prominent historians, whose work here is accompanied by over 250 illustrations and photographs. For its size, the city of Buffalo, New York, possesses a remarkable number and variety of architectural masterpieces from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: Adler and Sullivan's Prudential building, H. H. Richardson's massive Buffalo State Hospital, Richard Upjohn's Sr. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral, five prairie houses by Frank Lloyd Wright, and building by Daniel Burnham, Albert Kahn, and the firms of McKim, Mead, and White, and Lockwood, Green and Company, among others. These structures by prominent "outsiders" served to spur the efforts of local architects, builders, and craftsmen, and all of them built within the context of the city-wide park and parkway system designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. In addition, the city and its environs exhibit representative works by more recent architects, among them Eero and Eliel Saarinen, Walther Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Paul Rudloph, Minoru Yamasaki, and the firm of Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill. Buffalo's rich architectural and planning heritage has attracted the attention of several prominent historians, capable of the challenge of evaluating its significance. Reyner Banham is one of the world's leading authorities on the theory and practice of architecture, and he has written extensively on design in the industrial age (and Buffalo's innovative manufacturing plants and grain elevators are important exemplars of such design). Charles Beveridge, whose essay covers the park and parkway system, is editor of the Olmsted papers at The American University. And Henry Russell Hitchcock is the dean of American architectural historians, and the organizer of a 1940 exhibition on Buffalo's built environment. Their essays are followed by seven sections that delineate the city's neighborhoods, each provided with a map, neighborhood history, and a full complement of photographs with descriptive building captions. An eighth section, "Lost Buffalo," describes demolished buildings, chief among them Wright's great Larkin administration building, while the remaining sections venture out of town, exploring Erie and Niagara Counties, other parts of Western New York, and southern Ontario.
Grain Elevators
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Author : Lisa Mahar-Keplinger
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Grain Elevators written by Lisa Mahar-Keplinger and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Architecture categories.
In this astonishing collection of photographs and drawings, Lisa Mahar-Keplinger documents on of the most American of building types: the grain elevator, revealing them as symbols of the American collective unconscious. Winner of an AIA Book Award, Grain Elevators is a companion volume to Wood Burners.
Railroad Car Shortage
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1947
Railroad Car Shortage written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1947 with categories.