Buffalo716 Posted May 30, 2022 Share Posted May 30, 2022 (edited) 11 hours ago, Solomon Grundy said: I disagree. A mixture of the old and the new has worked in other cities i.e. Boston, Philadelphia, etc. None of those cities have built a new football palace downtown I'm not anti construction.. I just don't think 2+ billion dollars for a state of the art downtown stadium is worth it imo I'm all for the safest, cheapest option with the best sight lines Edited May 31, 2022 by Buffalo716 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Paulson Posted May 30, 2022 Share Posted May 30, 2022 23 hours ago, BubbaT said: The preservation efforts were not good until relatively recently. While you are correct about the Larkin Building, there is a one acre campus with 3 Wright buildings in the middle of the beautiful Parkside neighborhood (main Darwin Martin House, Barton House, Gardner's cottage). There are very few cities in the country that can offer that. Strongly recommend the full tour of all 3 houses. In addition, the HH Richardson tower and complex(the old Buffalo Psych Center), Louis Sullivan's The Guaranty building (he was Wright's original boss), Eero's Saarinen's Kleinhans Music Hall, Frederick Law Olmstead, designer of Central Park in NY did Delaware Park in Buffalo including Forest Lawn Cemetery (a beautiful place to walk and noted for quite a few famous people being buried there, including but not limited to these: https://www.visitbuffaloniagara.com/7-famous-residents-of-forest-lawn-cemetery/), blocks and blocks of Victorian Houses in Elmwood Village (it's like walking through a different era in history), The Albright Knox Art gallery (on the National Registry of Historic Places), the Theodore Roosevelt Mansion on Delaware Ave. where Roosevelt was sworn in after McKinley was assassinated and many many beautiful mansions that line Delaware Ave. The industrialists of old that lived there at one point owned all the land from Delaware Avenue to the Niagara River and there are more architectural attractions as well. Buffalo may be old and small but it's architecture is outstanding. Architectural tourism in this town has become a major tourist draw. It literally is one of the major component's of the future of this area. They don't build them like this any more and very few of the newer American cities have anything like it. I'll throw in the Ellicott Square Building and City Hall onto the list 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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