Buffalo, NY

 

 

(Part 1: Downtown and Allentown neighborhood)

 

 

Rand Building (1929)

 

 

 

 

 

Liberty Building  (1925)

 

 

Buffalo City Hall  (1931)

 

 

Main Place Tower (1969) with Buffalo Metro Rail line in foreground

 

 

Convention Tower (1924)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Erie County Hall (1876)

 

 

 

 

 

Prudential Building (Designed by Louis Sullivan, built as the Guaranty Building in 1894)

 

 

Prudential next to the Verizon/AT&T building (1913)

 

 

Saint Paul's Cathedral  (1851)

 

 

 

 

 

One M&T Plaza  (1966)

 

 

 

 

 

Ellicott Square Building (1896)

 

 

Dun Building (1895)

 

 

 

 

 

One HSBC Center (1972, tallest building in Buffalo)

 

 

Main Seneca Building (1913)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert H. Jackson United States Courthouse (2011) and Statler Hotel (1923)

 

 

Buffalo City Court Building (1974)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Inside City Hall, and up to the observation level)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Electric Tower (1912)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saint Louis Church (1889)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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North of downtown is the Allentown neighborhood:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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A few miles beyond the Allentown neighborhood you will find one of the greatest buildings ever created.

 

HH Richardson's State Hospital, built in 1870, a National  Landmark

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

…and for fun, here is the NY Central Terminal Tower(1929)

 

 

Ending with a view towards Delaware Avenue (thanks Cleburger) north-northeast out of downtown: (part 2?)

 

 

 

 

Buffalo impresses, and seems like a much larger city than it really is.  Thanks for the tour!

That last shot is not Main St.  It's Delaware Ave.

Fantastic set; Buffalo is certainly a favorite of mine.

I really love Buffalo. Looks like you went there in a better time than I did. I went on a whim in January or February and it was cold! They offer tours of downtown for $5/student or $10/adult I believe and City Hall tours are free. Great place to visit.

Thanks for posting! Looks like you had a good time in Buffalo, weather was certainly nice, as it usually is during summers in Buffalo.

 

Buffalo is a wonderful city, despite what some people say. My second-favorite city closest to me and my third favorite overall, behind Chicago and Detroit. The architecture in the city is incredible, it's only one of two cities in the U.S. to have prominent works done by the three most prominent archtitects of Sullivan, Wright, and Richardson. Downtown could use some work, but with the potential of the sharing of Metro Rail and vehicular traffic on Main Street, hopefully downtown comes more alive again, they have officially brought vehicular traffic back to the Theatre District downtown, so that's a start.

I adore Buffalo. 

Oh man  I gotta bet myself there someday.  Look like such amazing pre-war stuff downtown and great intact neighborhood stuff too.  Looks like some pretty atrocious post-war stuff dowtown, though.  Like many places, I suppose.

excellent and comprehensive thread here - very nice!

 

i wonder if the courthouse architects are the same who designed the at&t long lines bldg in downtown manhattan?

 

excellent and comprehensive thread here - very nice!

 

i wonder if the courthouse architects are the same who designed the at&t long lines bldg in downtown manhattan?

 

 

Those were not the same architects, but the architect of M & T Plaza was Minoru Yamasaki, who also designed the World Trade Center and Pruitt-Igoe.

Nice thread, seems that Buffalo could rise to the top as THE comeback rust belt city since its actually in a state that is progressive socially.  It has a leg up over cities in PA, OH, MI and even IL in that realm.  And a close international border with Canada.  It makes sense on paper at least.

 

i wonder if the courthouse architects are the same who designed the at&t long lines bldg in downtown manhattan?

 

Thought the exact same thing!  I saw that and thought of the long lines building.

Nice thread, seems that Buffalo could rise to the top as THE comeback rust belt city since its actually in a state that is progressive socially.

 

Yet inexplicably the area remains quite conservative.  Buffalo residents like to think they support New York City/State.  But in reality its the other way around--they get way more from Albany and NYC than they give to the treasury.  Right now a vast majority of the employment is government thanks to the university systems.    It's problems are just like Cleveland's--overwhelming loss of manufacturing jobs without replacing them.