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Sunset
View from the Steamboat Hotel
Main Street, Buffalo, 1868
This view from the rooftops overlooks lower
Main Street where the Hazard Block building framed the busy
pedestrian traffic at both the street and elevated boardwalk
levels. Travelers to Toledo, Detroit, and ports west, are
seen entering the arch for the dock where passengers could
board steamboats.
The Hazard, Brown, Watson, Bennett and Reed
grain elevators filter the early sunset light onto the shipping
canal. The original Buffalo lighthouse stands at the distant
harbor entrance as you view the Canadian shore of Lake Erie
in the background.
The unusual cupola in the foreground capped
the Steamboat Hotel and gave this building an impressive vantage
point from which to look out over Buffalo's bustling grain
milling port. By 1868, Buffalo was the largest grain milling
city in the world and truly the Queen City of the Great Lakes.
24.5 x 27.5 in. lithograph - 450 edition
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