File:Albright-Knox Northland - fmr Houde Engineering Company Heat Treatment Building - Buffalo, New York - 20221207.jpg
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English: The Albright-Knox's temporary branch gallery at 612 Northland Avenue in Buffalo, New York, as seen on a gloomy December 2022 afternoon. A contributing property to the proposed Northland-Belt Line Historic District, this erstwhile heat treatment facility and machine shop originally made up part of the Houde Engineering Company's factory complex. The North American contract manufacturer for a line of hydraulic shock absorbers invented by French-born engineer Maurice Houdaille and sold primarily for use in Ford automobiles, Houde was established in 1919, moved its base of operations to this sprawling ten-acre East Side campus in 1924, and spent the years immediately thereafter aggressively expanding both its plant's physical footprint and its production capacity to keep up with the then-meteoric growth of the consumer automobile industry. Chronologically speaking, this was one of the last elements of the complex to be built: the taller central portion dates to 1928, while the side wings are 1940s-era expansions. A low-slung, utilitarian single-story building of tile brick-faced steel curtain walls over a poured concrete floor, this is a typical example of the industrial architecture of the era. After a series of mergers, successor company Houdaille Industries moved its corporate headquarters to Florida in 1977, but its Hydraulics Division (later purchased by Vibratech) continued operating out of the Buffalo plant until 1995. Most of the factory complex was demolished in 2017; other than the still-vacant former office building on East Delavan Avenue, this is the only portion left standing. 2019 saw the building fully remodeled to serve as home to Albright-Knox Northland, a project space for temporary traveling exhibitions held by the identically named art gallery during the two-year period in which its permanent home on Elmwood Avenue would be closed for construction of a $155 million new addition. Albright-Knox Northland closed out its final exhibition in June 2022, and as of this writing the building is currently proposed as home to a career-training program for a local cannabis company to be operated in conjunction with the Northland Workforce Training Center. |
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