With over 2,500,000 square feet once filled the noise of machines and men, there is a ghostly feeling of what once was. During the workshops I rarely photograph but I do make it a point to arrive a day or two early or stay later and do my own photography. Since then I have conducted one to two workshops a year at Silo City. owned by local businessman Rick Smith. Within an hour of being there I decided to return and start offering workshops, the first of which was that year. In June of 2011, on a trip back to Buffalo, I was invited to photograph in Silo City, twelve acres of abandoned elevators along a bend in the Buffalo River. Although I spent sixteen years photographing the grain scoopers working along the remaining working elevators, I was never allowed into them to photograph. My Against the Grain work documented the end of this process from 1989 through 2004. Over the next forty years, most of the grain elevators there were shut down and abandoned. Almost overnight, the grain trade in Buffalo changed from a major transshipment center to that of grain only being shipped there to be used locally. In June of 2011, on a trip back to Buffalo, I was invited to photograph in Silo City, twelve acres of abandoned elevators along a bend in the Buffalo River. Lawrence Seaway allowing larger, ocean going ships to sail up to ports on the Great Lakes, load up with grain and bypass Buffalo on their way home. These events are all on the same street, usually in the same space (around ‘200 Childs St’). Silo City is a historical industrial complex located on the Buffalo River. The address number does not really mean anything. In 1959 the US and Canada completed the expansion of the St. Silo City 200 Silo City Row, Buffalo 14203 South Buffalo Description Save Silo City is all up and down Childs Street. In the early 1900’s there were fourteen concrete grain elevators along the Buffalo River as more and more grain was moved through or stored in Buffalo. This allowed Buffalo to become the largest transshipment center for grain throughout the world. Generation Development Group gave us a tour inside the. The Erie Canal opened in 1825, allowing shipments of grain between ports on the Great Lakes and Buffalo, NY to be moved to New York City, the Atlantic Ocean and then the world. On Tuesday, 2 On Your Side got a look inside a major restoration project that is getting started at Buffalo's Silo City. The Ghosts of Silo City Silo City, Buffalo, NY
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