I have all their albums.

It's nice to see that the building across the street has survived, with most of it's its curved windows.

The internet says the STOP SIGN was introduced in 1915 and in Detroit but clearly this picture is 10 years earlier and in Buffalo. The more you know

[These STOP signs are for streetcars, not automobiles. - Dave]

LAFAYETTE HOTEL / FIRE PROOF says the sign. The building might not burn down, but I wonder about the inhabitants. I guess that outside fire escapes came in at different times in different locations?

[And now, in 2025, the hotel is still without them. Outside fire escapes were generally found only on buildings without stairwells that met fire code. - Dave]

Doesn't look like an Oldsmobile. Tiller steering, too.

Pretty common on older buildings to see curved glass in sashes especially on outside corners. Those are massive. Today's equipment of power suction cups, manipulators on cranes, glaziers etc. make it work today. Having curved glass on commercial projects is very expensive.

100-plus years ago all done with wood scaffold, a lot of manpower, block and tackle, and hope the arc length and radius are correct.

Happily it has since been restored. The hotel is the masterpiece of Louise Blanchard Bethune (1856–1913), the first professional woman architect in the United States.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Lafayette

We learn that Louise Bethune once collaborated with famed inventor Nikola Tesla on the Cataract Power & Conduit Company’s terminal. And that in its worst years, the Hotel Lafayette – once the majestic stopover destination of President Franklin D. Roosevelt – turned into a quasi crack house under businessman Tran Dinh Truong’s care (or lack thereof) in the 1970s and 1980s.

https://mtlreviewofbooks.ca/reviews/storming-the-old-boys-citadel/

Checking up on the newsboy or perhaps wondering what's for lunch.