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A History of Buffalo’s Architecture and Culture
1804 – Plan for the village of Buffalo completed
Designer: Joseph Ellicott
1833 – Buffalo Lighthouse, one of the oldest such structures on the Great Lakes, is built.
1838 – Wilcox Mansion built
(Theodore Roosevelt inaugural site)
1840s Grain Elevators invented
Invented by Joseph Dart and Robert Dunbar
1849-1851 – St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral built
Architect: Richard Upjohn
1850 – Forest Lawn Cemetery founded
1862 – Buffalo Fine Arts Academy established
(Among the oldest public arts organizations in the U.S.)
1868-1898 - Buffalo Parks and parkways system built Delaware Park plan, Pan-American Exposition (1901)
Designers: Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux
1870-1896 – Buffalo State Hospital built
(now Buffalo Psychiatric Center)
Architect: H.H. Richardson,
Landscaping: Olmsted and Vaux
1871-1876 – Old County Hall built
(Site of McKinley’s assassin’s trial)
Architect: Andrew J. Warner
1876 – Asbury Delaware Church built
Architect: John H. Selkirk
1888 – Cyclorama Building
(six sided building used to display panoramas)
1892 – Market Arcade built
(current home to Buffalo Niagara Convention and Visitors Bureau)
Architects: Green and Wicks
1894-1895 – Dun Building built
Architects: Green and Wicks
1895 – Roycroft Campus established and built
Founded by Elbert Hubbard
1895-1896 – Guaranty Building (formerly Prudential Building) built
Architects: Adler and Sullivan
1895-1896 – Ellicott Square Building built
Architects: D.H. Burnham and Company
Floor mosaic (1930-31): William Winthrop Kent of NYC
1898 – South Park Conservatory built (now the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens)
Architects: Lord and Burnham Company
1898-1900 – Connecticut Street Armory built
Architects: Lansing and Beierl
1900-1901 – Buffalo Savings Bank built
Architects: Green and Wicks
1900-1905 – Albright Art Gallery built (now the Albright-Knox Art Gallery)
Architects: Green and Wicks
1901 – Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society built
Architect: George Cary
1903-1906 – Darwin D. Martin Complex built
Martin House 1904-1906
Barton House 1903-1904
Gardner’s Cottage 1905
Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright
1904 – Lafayette Hotel built
Architects: Bethune, Bethune, and Fuchs
(Buffalonian Louise Blanchard Bethune, 1856-1913, was the first woman member of the AIA)
1904-1905 – William R. Heath House built
Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright
1904-1906 – Larkin Administration Building built
(demolished 1950)
Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright
1906-1907 – Pierce Arrow Motor Car Company built
Factory Architects: Lockwood, Green & Co.
Administration Building Architect: George Cary
1908 – Walter V. Davidson House built
Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright
1926 – Shea’s Buffalo Center for the Performing Arts built
Architects: C.W. and G.W. Rapp
Interior: Louis Tiffany
1927 – Graycliff built (Darwin D. Martin summer home)
Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright
1929 – New York Central Terminal built
Architects: Fellheimer and Wagner
(Designed Grand Central Terminal in New York City)
1929-1931 – Buffalo City Hall built
Architects: George J. Dietel and John J. Wade
1934 – Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra established
1935-1936 – U.S. Post Office built (now Erie Community College city campus)
Architects: Bley and Lyman with Edward B. Green and Son
1938-1940 – Kleinhans Music Hall built (home to the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra)
Architects: Eliel and Eero Saarinen
1962 – New Wing of Albright-Knox Art Gallery built
Architect: Gordon Bunshaft for Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
1964-1966 – M&T Bank Building built
Architects: Minoru Yamasaki with Duane Lyman Associates
1966 – The Charles Burchfield Center established at Buffalo State College (to become Burchfield-Penney Art Center in 1994)
1966-1967 – Temple Beth Zion built
Architects: Harrison and Abramovitz
Windows: Ben Shahn
1974 – Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center established by Robert Longo, Cindy Sherman, Charles Clough, Nancy Dwyer
2001 – Pierce Arrow Museum established
2002 – Guaranty Building restored
2004 – Blue Sky Mausoleum constructed
2005 – Groundbreaking for Frank Lloyd Wright’s Boathouse
2005 – Completion of Mehrdad Yazdani’s Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute
2006 – New location of Hallwalls at the Absury Delaware Church opens
2006 – Acquisition of the Wright-designed Gardner’s Cottage
2006 – Projected completion of Martin House re-constructions
2006 – Gwathmey Siegel-designed BPAC groundbreaking
2007 – Projected completion of Erie Canal Harbor Waterfront Redevelopment
2008 – Projected completion of new BPAC
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