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| E.B. Green was a man of strong convictions who believed passionately in the dignity and power of history. As a young man, he mastered the Classical and Tudor Revival styles, and, with the exception of a few brief detours into other design idioms, was most comfortable working within the confines of these forms. His strength as a businessman probably derived from the realization the he was not an innovator, like Richardson, Sullivan, or Wright, nor did he wish to be. Instead, he chose to perfect his talent for adapting historic architectural forms to his clients' needs (which could only improve social credibility for the "newly-arrived" in Buffalo society).
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| During his long lifetime, E. B. Green had a relationship with Buffalo that was so strong that he was very often the first among local architects to receive commissions for the design of the city's significant civic, commercial, educational, religious, and residential buildings. The sheer volume of important buildings he produced was remarkable by standards of any architect's output. In general, his style seems to have depended to a large extent on whichever revival style was currently preferred by his clients. During a 72-year career, he designed more than 370 major structures from Maine to Indiana with more than two-thirds of them in the city of Buffalo. More than 160 of his Buffalo buildings survive to the delight of local people.
E.B. Green died at the age of 95 in 1950.
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