English: The Historic Warehouse Lofts, 210 Ellicott Street at East Eagle Street, Buffalo, New York, September 2022. Completed in 1913 to a design by the locally-based architectural firm of Colson & Hudson, this was one of the first steel-framed concrete warehouse buildings in the United States. The building stands seven stories in height and is a late-period example of the Commercial or Chicago School of architecture, with a flat roof, functional design, and simplified Neoclassical decorative features applied sparsely (most notably at the roofline, where a simple projecting cornice is undergirded by stylized brackets). Presaging the so-called "dingbat" style later to find a place in Midcentury Modern architecture, nearly the entire ground level consists of space for automobiles, namely a quartet of large loading docks (now used for tenant parking) over which the upper stories rest supported by load-bearing concrete piers.The building was constructed as a shipping and receiving warehouse for J. N. Adam & Co., a major local discount retailer, and was connected to its flagship store via a tunnel that ran under Washington Street, so as to keep those more workaday functions out of view of shoppers. J.N.'s occupied the space until about 1941, when it was subdivided amongst a number of commercial and light industrial tenants that, as the '40s wore on into the '50s, trended increasingly toward publishing companies and pulp and paper concerns. The longest tenured of these subsequent occupants was the Franklin-Cowan Paper Company, a local firm founded in 1931 by Karl C. Franklin that did double duty as both a wholesale paper seller and copywriting service for print advertisements. It and its corporate successor, the Seneca Paper Company, remained there until moving their operations to Cheektowaga in 1989. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009 as contributing property to the J. N. Adam-AM&A Historic District, and was purchased by Schneider Development in 2017 for coversion to condominiums.