Editing M&T Bank (section)

===20th century===
In 1901, the bank built a new headquarters on a site purchased for $210,000 near the southwest corner of Main and Swan Streets in Buffalo. The granite neo-classical building was designed by architect [[E. B. Green]] of Green & Wicks. By 1914, Robert Livingston Fryer was the bank's President. In 1917, Harry T. Ramsdell, the bank's fourth president, served as a district chairman for a special subscription committee of the national [[Liberty Loan]] program.<ref name="mtb2006">{{cite web |title=M&T Bank Celebrates 150 Years |url=https://ir.mtb.com/static-files/f93b59c8-addf-4e8f-a36a-293baad36b5d |website=ir.mtb.com |publisher=M&T Bank |access-date=18 January 2023 |location=[[Buffalo, New York]] |date=August 24, 2006}}</ref>
 
Following the 1925 merger with [[Fidelity Trust Building|Fidelity Trust]], the $100 million company was headed by Fidelity's President, 36-year-old [[Lewis G. Harriman]]. Harriman and a group of investors including [[A. H. Schoellkopf]], from the [[Jacob F. Schoellkopf|founding family]] of the [[Niagara Mohawk]] power company, and [[James V. Forrestal]], who would become the first [[U.S. Secretary of Defense]], own enough shares to control both Fidelity and M&T.<ref name="mtb2006"/>

In 1961, M&T acquired an entire block on Main Street between North Division and Eagle Streets in downtown Buffalo and began plans for a $12 million skyscraper to become the bank's new headquarters. In 1963, architect [[Minoru Yamasaki]], who was featured on the cover of [[Time (magazine)|''Time'' magazine]] that year as he was designing the [[World Trade Center (1973–2001)|World Trade Center]] in New York City, was retained by M&T to design its new building in Buffalo, which was completed in 1967. In 1964, Charles W. Millard succeeded Harriman as chairman of M&T.<ref name="mtb2006"/>

In 1969, M&T's stockholders voted to create a multi-bank holding company known as First Empire State Corporation. In 1983, the bank which had assets of $2 billion and operated 60 offices, named [[Robert G. Wilmers]] as chairman and CEO, a position he held until his death in December 2017.<ref name=history/> In 1995, First Empire formed a national bank subsidiary, M&T Bank, N.A.<ref name="mtb2006"/>

[[File:M&T Bank, Tamaqua, PA.jpg|thumb|300x300px|An M&T Bank location in [[Tamaqua, Pennsylvania]]]]