The Shredded Wheat Office Building has always caught my interest as I drove past it and wondered to myself could it be haunted? This is a very old and historical office building and of course we all know who Shredded Wheat is. The building was said to be very significant in the year 1900 although on the building 1920 is written perhaps that is when Shredded Wheat occupied it? I believe that this was the first office building affiliated with the start of shredded wheat also known as Nabisco. This office building seemed to have 3 other companies occupying this complex. Their was a truck garage here, the shredded wheat offices and some financial company. Their is a slip on the door saying it closed one year ago but I believe that is inaccurate since the historical research I have done shows it was closed in 1977. The condition is so bad in this place that it saddens me. Walls are spray painted, one floor is complete singed and burnt, another floor has so much rubble you cant even walk around, their is blankets, couches, an old keyboard laying around and even chemicals in drums that say warning. The elevators here are very old they are the cargo type where you pull the bars down. Their is at least a 6-7 floor building attached to that an old brick house like building an a garage. I guess what makes this place more foreboding is the 32 acres of woods in the back and that its surrounded by so much thick all around. That anything or anybody could hide here or on the property. I have came to the conclusion that this place may have alot of residual activity. But none the less an adventure into a part of history is what made it fun exploring this huge area. To me it looks like the reason this place closed was due to fire perhaps or just that Shredded Wheat perhaps had moved to another area in the Niagara County Region for expansion. Do the office building people still haunt this large complex? Now what is a historical building is now a place of ruins and a place where the drug attics, insane, homeless roam its halls at night looking for a place to stay. 

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Rick-AngelOfThyNight

Update On Our Research:

Niagara County Community College was founded on November 8, 1962 but there were no buildings, staff, courses or students. All of that would come in a remarkably short time causing the American Association of Junior Colleges to call NCCC "a miracle of accomplishment." 

The first college president, Dr. Ernest Notar, ceremonially opened the front door admitting NCCC's first 343 students on September 30, 1963 in Niagara Falls, New York. The original building located at 430 Buffalo Avenue was formerly the office of the old Nabisco Shredded Wheat plant which explains the quickly acquired nickname of "Nabisco Tech."

As the college grew, facilities in Niagara Falls expanded to include the former Third Street School, several homes nearby, the Parkway Inn, the Waldorf-Niagara Motel, the former Olin Laboratory, a former Mormon Church, and a portion of the Deveaux School. It soon became evident that these temporary facilities had been stretched to the limit and a permanent campus was necessary.