National Register of Historic Places

Linde Air Products Factory

Buffalo, Erie County, New York
Listed
September 11, 2017
Type
Building
Period
Industrial
Ref No.
100001584

About this property

Linde Air Products Factory, also known as the Chandler Street Plant, is a historic liquid oxygen factory building in the Black Rock neighborhood of Buffalo, New York, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. The original two-story section was built in 1907 of solid masonry construction with double-hung wood windows, brick piers, and pitched roofs. Red brick additions were made to the original building through 1948. The present building has a C-shaped plan that is nearly fully enclosed around a center courtyard and measuring approximately 300 feet wide by 275 feet deep. The building housed the first oxygen extraction facility in America and was later dubbed "the birthplace of the oxygen industry in the United States." It also served as the primary research facility for the Linde Air Products Company from 1923 until 1942. The building has been redeveloped as a kombucha brewery, cider works, orthodontic laboratory, loft apartments and utilant llc (insurtech company.

Location

155 Chandler St.
Buffalo, Erie County, New York
42.91017, -78.87010

Categories

INDUSTRY
Sources

Property data from the National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service (public domain).

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When was Linde Air Products Factory listed on the National Register?

Linde Air Products Factory was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 11, 2017.

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