Although the city still has an active grain industry, 15 of these heroic monuments of the early modern era stand empty along the Buffalo River, largely forgotten by the community that invented them ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The public agency leading the effort to revitalize Buffalo’s Lake Erie waterfront plans to light up the city’s towering grain elevators as part of a summer demonstration project.

The then-city commissioner of permits and inspections who issued an emergency order to demolish the Great Northern grain elevator didn't understand the building's engineering, mistakenly concluding ...