Green & Wicks was a partnership of architects E.B. Green (1855-1950) and William Sydney Wicks (1854-1919). Wicks, who was born in central New York, trained at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at Cornell University, where he later designed several buildings. E.B. (Edward Brodhead) Green also trained at Cornell. He and Wicks became business partners in Auburn, New York in 1881, moving to Buffalo two years later. The firm continued until Wicks retired in 1917. In addition to designing commercial buildings, Green & Wicks was also much sought after to design private homes in Buffalo. The firm designed three buildings for the Pan-American Exposition of 1901.