Cargill Pool Elevator | New York Photo Spot

Cargill Pool Elevator was a grain storage facility in Buffalo harbor built in the 1920s and previously named the Saskatchewan Cooperative Elevator. It was the only grain elevator in Buffalo that sat directly on the shores of Lake Erie. It was deeply affected by the 1959 opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway. Because the Buffalo elevators could be by-passed outright via the Seaway, fewer customers each year saw value in unloading grain to an elevator and reloading to rail cars bound for eastern ports. The elevator now sits empty slowly falling into disrepair. (Buffalo, New York, USA)