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Buffalo became one of America's greatest cities in the 19th and early 20th centuries. A significant amount of the enormous wealth generated here was invested in architecture -- the best that could be obtained in the U.S. There are outstanding buildings designed by America's greatest architects, such as Henry Hobson Richardson, Louis Sullivan, Richard Upjohn, Stanford White, and Frank Lloyd Wright.
This architectural showplace has more than 2,100 structures plus numerous parks, parkways, circles, places, avenues, and a cemetery in the National Register of Historic Places. In the city itself, there are seven National Historic Landmarks and one National Historic Site.
This remarkable architectural heritage came about as an integral part of Buffalo's growth to one of the nation's most important inland ports and manufacturing centers. It became the western terminus of the Erie Canal in 1825. It also presented an eastern port to the Great Lakes. Buffalo was the transfer point for raw materials and manufactured products. Later, the tremendous electrical power generated at nearby Niagara Falls induced many industries to settle here.
Classic Buffalo celebrates the remarkable quantity, diversity, and quality of Buffalo's architecture of the 19th and 20th centuries, concentrating on structures of the highest class, of the first order. This golden age of Buffalo architecture is presented in striking full color with many dramatic double-page and full-page photographs of both exteriors and interiors of hundreds of the most interesting buildings and spaces in Buffalo. Represented are outstanding commercial and public buildings, churches, schools and universities, clubs, and a broad spectrum of private residences. Along with the extraordinary photographs is a text that not only discusses the interesting architecture but also discloses the fascinating stories behind it.
Author Richard Reisem and photographer Andy Olenick also collaborated on the book, Erie Canal Legacy.
ISBN: 0-9671480-0-6
$39.95
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