The Wurlitzer Building Photo Gallery by jacob kedzierski at pbase.com

The Wurlitzer Building

The Wurlitzer Building originally started as the DeKleist Barrel Organ Works in 1893. Within a few years The Rudolph Wurlitzer moved their band organ manufacturing facilities to the North Tonawanda location. During the 1910's Wurlitzer started building their famous Mighty Wurlitzer Theatre Organs. Throughout the years the plant manufactured radios, jukeboxes and electronic organs. The plant closed in 1973 and was purchased, in the early 1980's, by a group of investors with the goal of turning the old plant into an industrial park.

wurlitzer building tower	inside tower water tank	beneath water tank	wurlitzer 9
cracked window	wurlitzer down the road	arty power house	wurlitzer 10
front wurlitzer wide	side of wurlitzer building	tower through	statue
side	alley vert	alley wurlitzer building wide	the mighty saw teeth of the wurlitzer complex
far back	old power house	power house	power house 3
where fr. sams used to be	side view	construction date	tsk
wurlitzer park	closed up saw teeth	middle sawteeth color	back saw teeth
walkway roof	roof	mighty saw teeth	tower back wide
front parking lot wide color	tower BW sunset color pinch	back hallway	walkway to the top
main room	stuff on third floor	empty room.....rent me!	stairway
third floor	organ	organpicture	digi saw teeth
pana tower two.jpg	pana tower.jpg	wurlitzer power tower	tower
power tower wide	pana four.jpg	third floor wide.jpg	IMG_5957v2.jpg
IMG_8940.JPG	wurlitzer new elevator doors	wurlitzer building	melody fair
i cleaned this bathroom in 1993, iron maiden tag still up!	Dan grafitti still up two.... amazing	the frank zappa too!	slop room hasnt changed in 15 years
you still cant dump dirty water in the sink	wurlitzer gets graffiti	wurlitzer gets graffiti	20060001v
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20060020v	20080011v	20080019v	20090022v
IMG_1650vg.jpg	old fr. sams breakroom	box folding station	oven area
elevator door	elevator door

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jessi		05-Nov-2010 01:17
Not sure how old this page is but I enjoyed your work. I am currently working on my portfolio for Pratt. I have to pick three places in mu surrounding neighborhood that go overlooked and. He wurlitzer building was one of my choices. Hence the reason I Stumbled upon your work. I am interested in how you gained access to all these areas of the complex.? I would appreciate it if you could tell me so I can do some paintings and sketches and whatnot. Thanks again.

Richard Burton		07-Jan-2006 15:24
Thank you for your wonderful photos. I grew up in NT. Our church (Community Christian Church-Ruie Rd.-no longer in existance) held services in the Wurlitzer building (I believe 2nd floor) for several years before the church was built. Thank you for the the great work. Brings back many memories.

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