By 1932, the art-deco masterpiece by Dietel & Wade, today’s Buffalo City Hall, opened and city operations moved out of Old County Hall. In 1965, the Rath Building was opened across Franklin Street.

Graham Smith showed up in shorts, a Bills T-shirt and light coat for a recent tour of Buffalo City Hall ... $7 million budget approved by city voters. The Art Deco-style city centerpiece was ...

Buffalo’s City Hall was designed by celebrated architects ... This ornamentation is sometimes called Art Deco, or Eclectic Classism, or American Modernism. John Wade called it American-esque ...

Start your exploration of the downtown area at the Art Deco City Hall in Niagara Square. The 32-story building was completed in 1931 and is the perfect place to get a sense of Buffalo's grand past.