{"nrhp_refnum":"12001128","name":"Turner Brothers' Building-American Household Storage Company","other_names":["J.B. Smith &amp","Sons","Niagara Pedal Company","American Storage Company"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"295 Niagara St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Buffalo","county":"Erie County","state":"NY","lat":42.89465340000004,"lon":-78.88333070899995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2013-01-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A multi-part industrial and warehouse building at 295 Niagara Street in Buffalo, Erie County, New York. It combines a ca. 1848 four-story Gothic Revival brick building built by the Turner Brothers with additions from ca. 1889, ca. 1910 and ca. 1940.","why_significant":"The building reflects Buffalo's manufacturing and commercial storage history. It was built for the Turner Brothers, makers of balsam, sarsaparilla and ginger wine, and later housed a children's carriage manufacturer. The ca. 1910 fireproof reinforced concrete additions, designed by G. Morton Wolfe for the American Household Storage Company, show early twentieth-century warehouse construction.","narrative":"At 295 Niagara Street in Buffalo stands a connected complex of four building blocks that records more than a century of local industry and storage. The oldest part, a four-story brick-bearing, wood-frame Gothic Revival building from about 1848, was built by the Turner Brothers, who made balsam, sarsaparilla and ginger wine and sold them widely. Later occupants included J.B. Sweet & Sons, makers of children's carriages. A three-story brick addition followed around 1889, and a three-story addition around 1940. About 1910 the American Household Storage Company added a four-story annex and a six-story fireproof reinforced concrete warehouse, both designed by G. Morton Wolfe. Original cast-iron hoods, sills, storefront columns, wood floors and columns, and fire doors survive, though many windows and the storefront have been filled in. The building is notable for showing both mid-nineteenth-century manufacturing and early twentieth-century fireproof warehouse design in one site.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Turner Brothers (ca. 1848 building); G. Morton Wolfe (ca. 1910 Annex and American Household Storage addition); American Household Storage Company (builder of 1910 addition)","architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century Gothic Revival Warehouse; Early 20th Century American Reinforced Concrete Warehouse","criteria":[],"status_note":"Current function listed as work in progress; the lot to the south is vacant, but the building itself is not described as vacant. Original windows and storefront are infilled, and the concrete shows deterioration in places.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:47.981382-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/12001128.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12001128/ae54689b2f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12001128/ae54689b2f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Andre Carrotflower","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Turner_Lofts,_Buffalo,_New_York_-_20190917.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Andre Carrotflower</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Turner_Lofts,_Buffalo,_New_York_-_20190917.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75317727","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turner_Brothers%27_Building%E2%80%93American_Household_Storage_Company","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14707524"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/erie-county/turner-brothers-building-american-household-storage-company-12001128/"}