Buffalo, NY: Pierce-Arrow Factory and Buffalo Foundry & Machine Co.

Pierce: (Satellite)

Foundry: (Satellite)
 

11: 59  video @ 3:59
The Dark Story Behind Buffalo's Most Iconic Factory | Pierce-Arrow Factory | Documentary

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I wonder how far into the 20th Century that they used line-shaft power.

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Street View, Jul 2025

Note Great Arrow Ave. Great Arrow was the name of one of the car models.

Satellite

The smoke stack still stands.

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1950/50 Buffalo NE and NW Quads @ 24,000

Buffalo Foundry & Machine Co.

Authentic Buffalo History posted
Buffalo Foundry & Machine Company at East Ferry Street and Fillmore in 1920

Phil Queeno commented on the above post
In 1842 David Bell, a Scotch machinist and mechanical engineer, came to Buffalo and found employment at the Buffalo Steam Engine Works, then lately brought into operation. In 1845 he joined William McNish in starting a small plant for the same business. The partnership was dissolved in 1850 and David Bell continued it alone. A few years later his works were burned, just after the expiration of insurance, and he began anew with little to capitalize his undertaking except the stuff of courageous energy in himself. He not only rebuilt his works, but also enlarged their scale. In business management he could hardly be called successful; but he kept his feet, and was always at the front of new ventures in his line. He built the "Merchant," the first iron propeller on the lakes. He began locomotive building in 1865. He constructed for the city its first fireboat, in 1887. He was full of enterprise to the end of his life, and the David Bell Engineering Works, which survived him, were merged, in 1907, in the Buffalo Foundry and Machine Company.

Note the sign on the top of the building.

Street View, Jun 2025