Who WE ARE

Our Mission

Restore – Revive – Renew

Clinton Brown Company Architecture, PC collaboratively designs the renewal of historic building and heritage places to attract new investment, to create new performance, and to keep them out of the landfill with productive use, all to make a better world for everyone.

We design the right balance of existing conditions, ideal vision, and friends and funds to save the places that matter, to build community, and to live better.

We practice progressive heritage conservation for the 21st Century with historic preservation, architecture, grants and historic tax credit services that incorporate economy, ecology, and equity in a cultural landscape approach to benefit everyone.

We are customer focused, entrepreneurial, and pioneering. We are a profitable business and a rewarding place in which to work.

We wish to go to work for you to advance your project and our community.

Extraordinary Experiences

Clinton Brown Company Architecture was born from necessity in 1988, on a desk made of a door recovered from a dumpster on sawhorses and located in a borrowed loft space in a then, near-vacant downtown Buffalo. Fueled by the drive for renewing historic buildings and heritage places, CBCA opened as a small firm motivated to making the world a better place for everyone by keeping landmarks out of landfills and creating new reasons for their self-sustaining contribution to their communities, a mission that still drives us to this day.                   

Opening during a recession when preservation was not a priority, our early work required an entrepreneurial approach to creating new projects from discarded buildings by envisioning what they could be. Along the way we have found the friends and funds necessary to make this vision a reality and have been able to survive and prosper in a rapidly changing environment.

Our approach to create work and make a difference relied on a process of simultaneously listening to and learning from the heritage character of a place, listening to and learning from people while collaboratively creating a shared vision of a place’s better future, and aligning these with capital and operating funding. With over 3 decades of experience practicing this, we have made a difference for places and people in communities large and small.

Today, the CBCA team remains true to its origin as a pioneering, innovative and powerful force in design excellence based on a right balance of social equity, environmental health, and commonwealth. We have become a trusted and reliable advocate for the preservation and rehabilitation of culturally and historically significant buildings and heritage places and the people they serve.

Our Core Values

We strive to infuse our firm’s values into your project 

Awards

Our clients have received prestigious awards for their projects

Affiliations

CBCA is involved with a range of prominent organization throughout Western New York. We believe in the importance of collaborating with others in order to connect with the community and demonstrate our knowledge and interest in our area.

“Your [CBCA’s] commitment to downtown revitalization is always evident in your thoughtful and lively remarks.”

– Jay DiLorenzo, President of the Preservation League of New York State

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