The gallery has also made it a mission to show work that directly shows Buffalo's fading industrial past, with exhibitions such as Jesse Webber's You Can't Smoke in Here, Mr. Corbusier, You'll Burn This Mother Down, featuring silkscreen prints of photographs of
several grain elevators taken by Herd and Hilla Becher, who are husband and wife.
An 1897 map shows three wagon shops, two blacksmith shops, a
grain elevator,
several stores and the Orland Park Hotel, which contained a single - lane bowling alley and a bar and had an outdoor privy.