File:Verizon Hamburg Wire Center - fmr New York Telephone Hamburg Office - Hamburg, New York - 20220213.jpg
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[edit]DescriptionVerizon Hamburg Wire Center - fmr New York Telephone Hamburg Office - Hamburg, New York - 20220213.jpg |
English: The Verizon Hamburg Wire Center, 141 Main Street at Center Street, Hamburg, New York, February 2022. This charming two-story brick structure dates to 1948, and like many of the telephone exchange buildings that were being constructed in the towns around Buffalo at the time - and, indeed, many of the small-scale institutional buildings of the same era - its design showcases a simplified take on the Colonial Revival style. The symmetrical façade, twelve-over-twelve double-hung sash windows, and Classical detailing such as the brick quoins on the sides of the façade, limestone drip caps over the windows, and the eye-catching main entrance framed by a swan's-neck pediment and a pair of ancones, all attest. The history of telephone service in Hamburg dates back to the early 1890s, with the village's original central switchboard located inside Ed Nott's drugstore at 16 Main Street (now the law office of Villarini & Henry). In 1910, the New York Telephone Company took over from Bell in providing phone service to the village, and it was they who constructed this building, the first purpose-built telephone exchange in the village, to accommodate the changeover from manual switchboard to dial telephone service, the latter of which had already been available for some time in the city of Buffalo and the nearby WAnakah, DErby, and BOston exchanges, but which now after the disruption of the war was being aggressively expanded into the growing suburbs. In addition to directory assistance and other plant operations, the Hamburg office was also the site of the long distance toll board for the southern suburbs of Buffalo until 1976, when those operations were centralized into the downtown Buffalo office as a cost-cutting measure. The building remains in operation by Verizon, New York Telephone's successor company. |
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Author | Andre Carrotflower |
Camera location | 42° 42′ 58.33″ N, 78° 50′ 03.99″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 42.716203; -78.834442 |
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Date and time of data generation | 14:58, 13 February 2022 |
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- February 2022 in New York (state)
- 2022 in Erie County, New York
- Verizon buildings
- Snow in Erie County, New York
- Hamburg Main Street Historic District
- Brick buildings in Erie County, New York
- Telephone exchange buildings in New York (state)
- Colonial Revival architecture in Erie County, New York
- Built in New York (state) in 1948
- 1940s architecture in Erie County, New York
- Buildings in Hamburg (town), New York