Washington Street was once second only to Main Street in density and vitality. Here, in a 1935 photograph of the northeast corner of Washington and North Division streets, is the block now occupied by the eight-story Robert B. Adam Parking Ramp. On the right at North Division Street is the shuttered warehouse of the Clawson & Wilson Company, wholesale dry goods—the corner building originally called the Miller & Greiner Block, designed by M. E. Beebe & Son in about 1883. To the left is the Gould Building, also vacant. Both sites would be converted to parking by 1940. At the corner of Eagle Street is the Lincoln Hotel, which remained in operation as late as 1954. The Eagle Ramp, later renamed for department store owner Robert B. Adam, opened with an initial 595 parking spaces on September 7, 1955, and was the second municipal ramp to be built by the City of Buffalo, after the Mohawk Ramp. Such projects were forerunners to the mass demolition of downtown for parking. This block is now used solely for the storage of up to 1,787 cars.