File:The Dun Building, Pearl Street and Swan Street, Buffalo, NY - 52675459135.jpg

English: Built in 1894-95, this Beaux Arts-style ten-story skyscraper was designed by Edward B. Green and William S. Wicks for Robert G. Dun and Company, a business credit rating agency. The building was the first skyscraper in Buffalo, and was clad in orange-brown buff brick with decorative terra cotta trim, one-over-one windows, decorative brick window trim, decorative surrounds at the first floor entry doors on the Pearl Street facade with transoms featuring roman lattice motif, two-story curtain walls with metal spandrels on the first and second floors of the Pearl Street facade, oxeye windows above the entry doors, a rusticated third floor brick exterior, a series of large arched recessed bays with triple windows topped with arched windows between the fourth and seventh floors on the building’s principal facades, with metal spandrel panels and pilasters, two elliptical oxeye windows on the seventh floor of the Pearl Street facade, flanking the central arched window, multiple small cornices, and a red brick scar left where the cornice at the top of the building was removed in the late 20th Century. The building is listed as a historic landmark by the City of Buffalo, and saw its exterior and common spaces mostly restored in the 1980s, though the cornice remains missing.