Niagara Mohawk Building
Introduction The art deco Niagara Mohawk Building in Syracuse, New York, on Tuesday, January 18, 2022.Photo by Ted ShaffreyThe '''Niagara Mohawk Building''' is an art deco classic building in Syracuse, New York. The building was built in 1932 and was headquarters for the Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation, what was "then the nation's largest electric utility company". The Art Deco building was designed by Syracuse architect Melvin L. King in a consultation with Buffalo firm Bley and Lyman.The company has since been acquired by merger into National Grid plc. According to the National Park Service:The Niagara Hudson Building in Syracuse is an outstanding example of Art Deco architecture and a symbol of the Age of Electricity. Completed in 1932, the building became the headquarters for the nation’s largest electric utility company and expressed the technology of electricity through its modernistic design, material, and extraordinary program of exterior lighting. The design elements applied by architects Melvin L. King and Bley & Lyman transformed a corporate office tower into a widely admired beacon of light and belief in the future. With its central tower and figurative winged sculpture personifying electric lighting, the powerfully sculpted and decorated building offered a symbol of optimism and progress in the context of the Great Depression.The art deco Niagara Mohawk Building in Syracuse, New York, on Tuesday, January 18, 2022.Photo by Ted ShaffreyThe building was listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places in June 2010.The listing was announced as the featured listing in the National Park Service's weekly list of June 25, 2010.It had then been nominated by New York State's Board of Historic Preservation for listing on the National Register of Historic Places in December 2009.
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