Hidden remnants of beauty are often revealed in unlikely corners of the Hydraulics. The Langner Building is one example where, if one does not pay close attention, one can easily overlook the finer details of this former retail building.

Langner’s, at the corner of Hydraulic and Seneca streets, has been occupied and adaptively reused by the vibrant canvas manufacturing business, Custom Canvas, since the early 1960s.  by German-born, West Seneca politician John G. Langner to house his eponymously titled wholesale grocery in the late 1870s, the Langner Building is one of a few extant retail structures on Seneca Street established after the horse-drawn highway known as the Buffalo & Aurora Road was constructed from East Aurora to Buffalo in the late 1840s. Read the rest of this entry »