What stands there now ? The building also featured an observation tower open to the public from 7 a.m. through 11 p.m. For ten cents, the visitor was at the highest point in the city from which to view the grandest panorama the eye ever dwelt upon - the entire city at a glance, Lake Erie, the harbor, the beautiful Niagara majestically wending its way... the entire Niagara region, Grand and Navy islands and a goodly portion of Canada, distinctly visible to naked eye on clear days...Fifteen minutes on the Tower will do more to geographically locate any objective point than weeks of walk or ride around the city.[Ins and Outs of Buffalo] William P. Morgan moved to Buffalo and actively managed the building until his death in 1937. Years later, when the building was about to be demolished, lawyers who had worked in the building recalled the Morgan Building fondly. Attorney Sidney B. Pfeifer said, The leading lawyers of the city had their offices here when I moved in. Another attorney said that it was the ideal location for lawyers as it was close to County Hall and the courts. He also described a collegial atmosphere in the building where older lawyers helped the younger ones. From 1948-1954, former Buffalo Mayor Joseph Kelly owned the building. Then a Buffalo group purchased it for $350,000. It had 110 offices at that time. In 1958, a Rochester syndicate paid $500,000 for it, intending to remodel and modernize it with air-conditioning and automatic elevator. It had 140 tenants. In 1963, the building went in to foreclosure and was purchased by Nelson R. Barrett for $500,000.It was less than 60% occupied. Erie County purchased it in the fall of 1964 for $426,000; it also purchased the vacant Niagara Hotel next door ($94,500) with plans to demolish both for construction of a new county building.
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