The story
The company's automobiles were commonly marketed to affluent women as an alternative to the dangerous manual crank starting that was required with a gasoline vehicle. The company went out of business in 1916.
The Buffalo Electric Vehicle Company Building is a historic automobile factory and showroom located at Buffalo in Erie County, New York. It was constructed in 1910–1911. The building has been redeveloped as home to "Artspace Buffalo."
The company's factory and showroom was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
From Wikipedia’s article on Buffalo Electric Vehicle Company, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3