By 1932, the art-deco masterpiece by Dietel & Wade, today’s Buffalo City Hall, opened and city operations moved out of Old County Hall. In 1965, the Rath Building was opened across Franklin Street.

“Old County Hall has a tunnel called the tunnel of tears. It’s a creepy underground passage built in the late 1800s that connects Buffalo City Jail with Old County Hall. It was put there to be ...