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Hotel Niagara

Abandonment:
The hotel was built by Niagara Falls businessman Frank Dudley. The 12 story, steel frame and concrete hotel was designed by prominent Buffalo architects Esenwein & Johnson and was built in 1924 (a curved building and cornerstone laid on March 24, 1924). The hotel was dedicated on April 8, 1925 and opened for business the following day. It is located 1/4 mile from the Horseshoe Falls, its offered pure luxury with views right on top of the falls. It has nearly 200 guest rooms as well as convention facilities.

The hotel's primary public rooms include the lobby, ballroom and main dining room and as of March 2016, have survived largely intact. They feature very "elaborate" ceiling plaster moldings and columns, gilded capitals, faux limestone walls, oak and emerald terrazzo floors. Luxury at its finest in good old days!
Not sure if anyone has took on the restoration process because it has changed hands many many times and things are expensive to restore to its original level!
But at the time of this shot it sat abandoned fading away....

Well my wife and I got through another work weekend, we now have till Friday off. I have yard chores to do, plus I volunteered to till up my friends garden and my neighbors flower garden so I thought Id at least post a shot say hello and try to visit your work as well my friends! I probably won't get to check everyone's new postings till tonight but bare with me guys.

Thank you very much for taking time to visit, greatly appreciated my friends! Hope you enjoy this grand old hotel and some history behind it.

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