English: The Barnes & Hengerer Building, 268 Main Street, Buffalo, New York, December 2020. Exemplifying the Romanesque Revival style with its bulky massing and ruddy brick façade (accentuated with Medina sandstone trim), the third and fourth floors boast handsome pairs and trios of trademark Romanesque round-arched windows topped with prominent window heads and intercalated horizontally by pilaster strips with stylized Corinthian capitals as well as vertically by spandrel panels carved with acanthus leaves in relief. The central pairs of windows on the projecting portion of the façade are crowned in turn by larger arches with still more foliate reliefs. The fenestration on the upper floors is different, consisting respecitvely of segmental-arched windows and regularly spaced rectangular windows, with stone belt courses delineating the floor divisions. By contrast, the bottom two floors of the building were redesigned in 1990 in a Postmodern style, retaining only the frieze and the ancone-crowned pilaster strips from the original design. The prominent fanlight at center was meant to emulate the original grand arched entrance, which along with the original bottom floors was lost to a 1960s-era modernization. Built in 1888 from a design by William Carlin, the building was once home to the William Hengerer Company, a longtime linchpin of downtown retail whose roots date back to the 1838 opening of Richard J. Sherman's dry goods store. Joseph C. Barnes (1824-1895) and William Hengerer (1837-1900) were later partners in the firm. After Barnes & Hengerer's move to the building now called Lafayette Court, Sweeney & Co., a competitor, operated a store there for a time. The building now houses the offices of advertising firm Crowley Webb and Associates, J. R. Militello Realty, the Keenan Law Firm, and various retail establishments on the ground floor.