The Guild @980, 980 Northampton Street

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The Guild @980, 980 Northampton Street
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980 Northampton Street, Buffalo NY 14211

Parcel designation is 974 Northampton. The property has long been referred to as 980 Northampton.
Across Fougeron Street from the Milk-Bone Plant.
Half a block west of The Belt Line.
Lat, Long: 42.90761, -78.83051
SBL Number: 101.54-1-2.1
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Three story, 42,000 sf "daylight factory" building.
Fireproof construction, with poured concrete floors, mushroom pillars and three fire stairs at the building's corners.
Original windows are lost, replaced by glass block and metal panels.

Built 1922 by The Schaaf Company, Builder.
First used as Val Duttenhofer Shoe Company. Also used by Duffy Silk.
Long-time use as the headquarters of Cathedral Envelope Corporation, a printing company that started out by printing collection envelopes for Catholic Churches.
The building is currently known as "The Guild @980" and houses ReUse Action, a dealer in reclaimed building materials, as well as a subdivided third floor rented to small businesses, artists and craftpersons.
Part of the City's 2013 "Preservation Ready" survey (24MB PDF), as part of the Fougeron Center along the Belt Line. Potentially eligible for historic preservation tax credits as a contributing structure to a possible Fougeron/Belt Line historic district.