Located in the heart of the Theater District since 1892, the "Market Arcade"s decline and rebirth is exemplary of the revitalization of Main Street. This ornate building's lovely Beaux-Arts style, emblematic of the era's optimism and taste for aesthetic grandeur, is the work of the preeminent Buffalo architectural firm of the time, Green & Wicks, who supposedly modeled it after the Burlington Arcade in London. Basically a turn-of-the-century shopping mall, the inviting plate-glass storefronts of the Market Arcade overlooked a long, skylit interior corridor that provided a convenient route from bustling Main Street to the "Chippewa-Washington Public Market" on the other side. After World War II, as shoppers began to eschew public outdoor markets for suburban supermarkets and downtown department stores for shopping malls, the Market Arcade declined and finally closed in the middle 1970s, but was thoroughly restored and revitalized two decades later and now hosts about twenty office and retail tenants, including "Mazurek's Bakery", the "J. Christian Fashion Boutique", "Sasmita Batik Indonesia", the "Buffalo Niagara Visitors' Center", and local artist Michael Mulley's "Queen City Gallery".