Glass Horseshoe
Sanborn Map of the intersection of William and Pine in Buffalo, NY 1925- Feb. 1951, vol.2 1926-Apr. 1950 sheet 156.
Known Name(s)
Glass Horseshoe
Address
214 Williams St. Buffalo, NY
Establishment Type(s)
Tavern
Physical Status
Demolished
Description
The Glass Horseshoe was located in a two-story building with a composition roof, which had a height from the ground to roof level of 27 feet and a wall thickness of 12 inches on both stories according to the 1951 updated Sanborn map. There was a firewall 12 inches above the roof as well as windows on the back of building on the second floor. To the west side of the building there is a one-story room with a composition roof with a height from the ground to roof level of 14 feet. This section also had a fire wall, this one being 6 inches above the roof. The establishment was located on the corner of William and Pine. It was flanked by stores on William Street and a store and dwellings on Pine.
Detailed History
The Glass Horseshoe, or the Horse Shoe, sat at one end of the 200 block of Pine, the opposite end from St. Mary's Church, convent, and school. It was on the corner of William Street, in the commercial section of the African American neighborhood on Buffalo's East Side. In the Green Book, it was listed separately as both a tavern and a restaurant. The site is currently an empty lot. Glass Horseshoe is very likely the same establishment as Horse Shoe's ( https://community.village.virginia.edu/greenbooks/content/horse-shoe/ ) and Horseshoe's (https://community.village.virginia.edu/greenbooks/content/horseshoe/ )
