Buffalo, New York sits at the eastern end of Lake Erie, less than 20 miles from Niagara Falls. Before French explorers roamed the area in the early 1600s, the Iroquois called it home. By the 1700s a small village sprung up. Then, in 1825, Buffalo put itself on the map by becoming the western terminus of the Erie Canal. As canal traffic waned, Buffalo’s rail hub swelled to rival Chicago.
Fickle commerce may have found new cities to love, but Buffalo remains an architectural gem. For starters, the city plan has a radial street grid reminiscent of Paris and Washington, D.C. It has interconnected parks and parkways designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. Then, the country’s most prominent architects built here: Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Sullivan, Henry Hobson Richardson among them. (See Wikipedia’s Architecture of Buffalo and Visit Buffalo Niagara’s Architecture page.) No wonder the city fondly quotes the New York Times’ 1998 article that called Buffalo “a textbook for a course in modern American buildings.”
- Wikipedia: Buffalo, New York
- Official Website: buffalony.gov
- Tourism Website: visitbuffaloniagara.com
- Google Map
- Related: Architecture of Buffalo (Wikipedia)
- Related: Explore Buffalo, New York, a Master Class in Architecture
- Related: City of Buffalo Historic Preservation
- For Your Bookshelf: Buffalo Architecture: A Guide
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