Comprising the buildings on either side of Niagara Street between Breckenridge Street and Lafayette Avenue, as well as the adjacent buildings to the west on Mason Street, this is a remarkably intact period streetscape that dates from the years between 1885 and 1915, when the Upper Rock was a buzzing industrial district at the crossroads of numerous methods of transportation A the old warehouses and factory buildings on the west side of the street back up directly onto the ”’New York Central Railroad”’ tracks and what was once the ”’Erie Canal”’, while the east side of the street is characterized by houses and storefronts serving the working-class residents of the neighborhood. Some of the buildings you’ll see in the Upper Black Rock Historic District are the former ”’Sterling Engine Company”’ (1246-1270 Niagara St.), built in 1907 and now redeveloped as the home of ”’Resurgence Brewery”’ and the ”’BT&C Gallery”’, and the old ”’Union Meeting House”’ (44 Breckenridge St.), which predates all other buildings in the district as the oldest extant church building in Buffalo, erected in 1827.