By Steve Cichon
steve@buffalostories.com
@stevebuffalo
This photo looks east down Genesee Street in the mid-1890s. The photographer was standing between Main and Washington to snap the image.
Outside of the hotel in the foreground, the most visible building is the church six blocks away at Genesee and Hickory. What was then St. Peter’s Evangelical Church was built in 1877. St. Peter’s Evangelical and Reformed Church merged with Zion Evangelical and Reformed in 1955. The building still stands as home to SENSES Wellness Center.
The Hotel Ontario was known as Greuner’s Hotel for the last 15 years or so that it stood. It was torn down in 1911 to make way for the headquarters of the General Electric Company.
The iconic Electric Tower remains one of the most interesting buildings in downtown Buffalo.
