Right across the street is the Guaranty Building. It actually has Guaranty and Prudential on the building itself. That is because financing fell through and Prudential picked it up at the time. The building was designed by the man who actually taught Frank Lloyd Wright. His name was Louis Sullivan. It's a very impressive building, of course made from Terra cotta. You can vividly see the designs on the vertical beams which purposely draws your eyesight to its height. At the top it count ours out and has these branches almost like a tree. The back side is interesting. It actually looks very basic, and you can see the middle was added on. This was of course because there had to be a skylight when it was built in 1896.
Next up was Old County Hall. This was built and actually houses both Erie County Hall and Buffalo's City Hall for awhile. It was finished in 1875, and designed with a Romanesque style. From above it looked like a double Roman cross. There are four statues on the building weighing 16 tons each. They represent Commerce, Mechanical Arts, Justice, and Agriculture. Millard Fillnore and Grover Cleveland actually practiced law out of this building at one point or another.
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