Michael J. Dillon Memorial Federal Courthouse (Buffalo, New York)

 courthouse, Art Deco (architecture), 1936_construction, federal government

Designed in 1933 by local architects Green and Sons & Bley and Lyman, the Buffalo Federal Courthouse is considered an excellent example of the Art Moderne architecture favored for government buildings funded by President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal programs.

Completed in 1936 and dedicated by President Roosevelt himself, the pentagonal seven-story building has served as the home to Buffalo's primary Federal Courthouse, U.S. District Court, Court of Appeals, U.S. Probation, U.S. Marshals, U.S. Attorney and GSA departments for 75 years. Renamed in honor of slain IRS Agent Michael J. Dillon in 1986, the courthouse is slated for repurposing now that the new Buffalo Federal Courthouse has been completed and will house the various federal agencies once housed in the Dillon Courthouse.

In 2004 the Michael J. Dillon Courthouse was nominated to the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing element of the Joseph Ellicott Historic District in Buffalo.