The onetime "bawdy house" at 72 Sycamore St., now on brink of restoration. (Derek Gee/News file photo)
By Derek Gee/Buffalo News
Jessie Fisher, executive director of Preservation Buffalo Niagara, speaks in what once was the sitting room for Eliza Quirk's "bawdy house."
Mark Mulville/News file photo
People tour 72 Sycamore St near Michigan Avenue in Buffalo Thursday, February 26, 2020. The ancient brick building is finally on the brink of being renovated. (Mark Mulville/Buffalo News)
By Mark Mulville/Buffalo News
Jessie Fisher, executive director of Preservation Buffalo Niagara, speaks in what once was the sitting room for Eliza Quirk's "bawdy house."
Mark Mulville/Buffalo News
People tour 72 Sycamore St near Michigan Avenue in Buffalo Thursday, February 26, 2020. The ancient brick building is finally on the brink of being renovated. (Mark Mulville/Buffalo News)
By Mark Mulville/Buffalo News
The demolition of a house in Elmwood Village: Chilling affect on preservation process. (Mark Sommer/The Buffalo News)
The snow had not quite arrived Thursday as a pewter dusk slipped into night on Sycamore Street. Jessie Fisher and Barbara Campagna ignored a cold rain outside an old brick building near Michigan Avenue, greeting others at the entrance to a tattered landmark that for years had seemed abandoned to commuters driving past.
People tour 72 Sycamore St near Michigan Avenue in Buffalo Thursday, February 26, 2020. The ancient brick building is finally on the brink of being renovated. (Mark Mulville/Buffalo News)
People tour 72 Sycamore St near Michigan Avenue in Buffalo Thursday, February 26, 2020. The ancient brick building is finally on the brink of being renovated. (Mark Mulville/Buffalo News)