Buffalo City Hospital article by Green and Wicks in The Modern Hospital. Photos courtesy of the Buffalo History Museum, used by permission. 15 To build it, the city hired E.B. Green and William Wicks, principals of one of Buffalo’s most prestigious architectural firms and designers of the Albright Art Gallery, the Buffalo Savings Bank, and the Twentieth Century Club. A 1916 article by Green and Wicks in the contemporary journal The Modern Hospital reports that both the managers and the architects of the new hospital visited other hospitals throughout the U.S. and other countries to gather information about the ideal arrangement of patient rooms, stair halls, corridors, elevator spaces, and other architectural features to optimize the daily operation of the hospital. In planning for the hospital, the architects wrote, “The ideal hospital…will be so arranged, constructed, and administered as to make each patient realize on leaving that [their] stay has been made as comfortable and pleasant as possible.” Buffalo City Hospital 1918-1939