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Wind damages historic Buffalo tavern

The owner of one of two Erie Canal-era taverns still standing in the city hopes to move the building to the terminus of the canal. A fierce wind storm may have given him a head start.

This week's 60 mph winds tore off part of the roof of McBride's Irish Pub, which dates to roughly the 1850s, and the building was cordoned off because of the threat of falling bricks.
Read entire article at USA Today