File:Bigelow Building, Buffalo, New York - 20220706.jpg

English: The Bigelow Building, 296 Delaware Avenue at North Johnson Park, Buffalo, New York, July 2022. In this 1915 commercial building, the architecture firm of Colson & Hudson work in a timely Neoclassical style that, in its relatively modest dimensions and extreme minimalism, is reminiscent of their roughly contemporaneous design for 735 Main Street: ornamentation on the exterior includes storefront windows that sport decorative cresting in the heads and are intercalated by Doric pilaster strips, a simple stone enframement around the double glass-paneled main entrance, and not much more. The building was commissioned by wealthy attorney-turned-real estate magnate Harlow C. Curtiss for the former site of the Laurence D. Rumsey House, on a stretch of Delaware Avenue that newspapers of the day touted as "rapidly becoming... like lower Fifth Avenue in New York City, a center for the high-class shops catering almost exclusively to the automobile and carriage trades". The latter words proved prescient, as it was to the Packard Motor Car Company that the space was initially leased. Their dealership was located here until 1926, when it moved to the storefront space in the brand new Northeast regional distribution center on Main Street. Later tenants included:

• the Bigelow Burton advertising agency (1927-1936), which lent the building the name it still maintains
• Axel E. Sahlin Typographical Service (1926-1965), whose namesake founder was a former Bigelow Burton employee
• the local offices of the Hoover vacuum cleaner company (1934-early 1960s)
• the studio of architect Sebastian Tauriello (briefly in the late 1940s and early '50s)
• the local offices of International Business Machines (early 1950s-1960s; in the latter years they ran the Buffalo branch of the Ward School here, one of the first to offer computer programming classes to the general public)
• the second location of the Nina Freudenheim Gallery (1989-1995)

The current flagship tenant, David Tiftickjian & Sons, is a purveyor of Oriental rugs and carpets that has been in business in one form or another since 1896.