Niagara Mohawk Building 

Today I was deployed by the Red Cross to help with the flooding in Central New York. I left the Worcester Chapter in the morning and picked up Bruce, a client casework volunteer, at the Pioneer Valley chapter. We drove through Albany, Utica and arrived at the reponse HQ's in Syracuse in the late afternoon. While we were driving around looking for the office, we found this architectural treasure. It's the Niagara Mohawk Building, built in the Art Deco style in 1932. It was placed on the National Rgister of Historic Places in 2010. Writes the National Park Service:

"The design elements applied by architects Melvin L. King and Bley & Lyman transformed a corporate office tower into a widely admired beacon of light and belief in the future. With its central tower and figurative winged sculpture personifying electric lighting, the powerfully sculpted and decorated building offered a symbol of optimism and progress in the context of the Great Depression."