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The Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Company was central to Buffalo, NY’s most significant era of growth and prosperity, and is a lasting symbol of American turn-of-the-century innovation and ingenuity. The Buffalo Transportation Pierce-Arrow Museum is proud to share with you our unique collection, which honors and preserves the company's long and prestigious history.
Buffalo-made cars and cycles are considered among the finest ever crafted. The Buffalo Transportation Pierce-Arrow Museum celebrates the region’s transportation history with displays of antique vehicles, bicycles, motorcycles, the Women’s Transportation Hall of Fame, toys, signs, and historic automobilia unlike any other in the world. The collection focuses significantly on the Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Company and the E.R. Thomas Motor Company—considered by car collecting experts to be among the top 10 best vehicles ever produced.
The Museum was established in 1997 as a non-profit 501(c)(3) by founders Jim and Mary Ann Sandoro. Housed in downtown Buffalo in a building that was once a Mack Truck showroom, our collection represents a passion spanning more than 45 years. We’ve devoted ourselves to preserving and showcasing this exhilarating legacy. We invite you to come along for the ride.
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Pierce-Arrows were the official vehicle for presidents from Howard Taft to FDR—and the automobile of choice for John D. Rockefeller, Orville Wright, Babe Ruth and J. Edgar Hoover—the remains of whose bullet proof Pierce-Arrow is on display at the Museum.
The station is situated inside a 30,000 square foot atrium addition that features a high ceiling to accommodate the totems and a suspended neon Tydol sign. The Filling Station was honored with a Copper in Architecture Award in 2014.
Wright's design for the station called for overhead gas pumps that eliminated the need for pump islands. Gas bells were designed to hang from the cantilevered canopy of the station, and gas was gravity fed.
