File:Perron Company Building, Main Street, Buffalo, NY - 52685649226.jpg

English: Built in 1895, this Beaux Arts-style building was designed by E. A. Kent for the A. E. Perron Company, as a showroom for their manufactured carriages, sleighs, and harnesses. The building is clad in white-painted brick with terra cotta trim, including a trim surround at the first floor shopfront, doric columns with egg and dart motif on the capitals not he first floor, rosettes, a band of belt coursing at the base of the second floor, a recessed curtain wall on the second floor and third floor with metal spandrels and Chicago-style tripartite windows, fluted ionic pilasters and columns with bead and reel and egg and dart trim, a cornice at the top of the third floor with dentils, modillions, and cartouches at the ends, with the medical symbol of two snakes wrapping around a staff at the base of the cartouche, and wreaths above. The fourth and fifth floors feature doric pilasters, egg and dart motif on the trim, and arched windows on the fifth floor. The top of the building is crowned with a large relief with festoons flanking decorative attic windows, with cartouches on either end, and a cornice with modillions, dentils, and rosettes above at the top of the front parapet that encloses the low-slope roof, with the central section of the cornice clearly being a plainer contemporary reproduction of the more ornate cornice on either side. After being home to the A. E. Perron Company, the building became to a showroom for the Poppenberg Company in 1905, then the Wurlitzer Company in the 1930s, which continually occupied the building until 1996. The building then became home to the Washington Surplus store, which sold used surplus military equipment, and had the upper floors converted into 12 apartments. Today, the first floor retail space is vacant, though the apartments above remain occupied.