Spencer Kellogg Administration and Office Building - Buffalo, NY - American Guide Series on Waymarking.com

The SPENCER KELLOGG ADMINISTRATION AND OFFICE BUILDING, NW. corner of Niagara Square and Delaware Ave., is a two-story-and-basement red brick office building designed in the post-Colonial style. It houses the main offices of Spencer Kellogg & Sons, one of the largest manufacturers of linseed products in the United States. A painting in the lobby by A. Forestier depicts early sixteenth-century uses of linseed oil.

The structure incorporates parts of the Sizer House, which was built in 1836 for Henry Huntington Sizer, wealthy Buffalo grain merchant. This house was the first Buffalo residence to use gas for illumination; and tradition has it that, when Sizer's daughter was married at high noon, she had all the shutters closed and curtains drawn, so that the 'elegant effect' of the new lighting might show to full advantage.