Site of The Buffalo Union Furnace Co. (Buffalo, New York) | production, blast furnace, ironworks

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Incorporated in November 1900, the Buffalo Union Furnace Company was a Pig Iron manufacturer which occupied a significant portion of the Western shoreline of the Katherine Street peninsula on the Buffalo River. Equipped with three blast furnaces and capable of producing 300,000 tons of Pig Iron per year for use by ironworks and steel mills both local and nationwide, the Buffalo Union Furnace operated throughout the early 1900's before being absorbed by the larger Hanna Furnace Co. in the early 1920's. Already operating a large Pig Iron factory in Lackawanna along the Union Ship Canal, Hanna idled and stripped the Buffalo plant, liquidating or scrapping and materials they could not reuse at their original facility.

With the valuable land cleared by the mid-1920's, the site of the Buffalo Union Furnace Co. became an open-air storage and processing facility for various aggregate materials through the 1960's, when the parcel was subdivided and sold off to private buyers. Today, the former property is home to a commercial ship repair firm, the seasonal storage facility for the Niagara River Ice Boom and Mutual Riverfront Park.