St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral, Buffalo New York
St. Paul's Cathedral is located near a site of a cannon mount for the defense of Buffalo during the War of 1812. The original frame church, built in 1819-21, was the first permanent church building in western New York.
St. Paul's Cathedral was constructed during the rectorship of Rev. William Shelton, As a follower of the Oxford Movement, which advocated a return to High-Church practices. Shelton perhaps influenced the selection of Upjohn as architect. Upjohn, at mid-century, was one of several architects working within the accepted mode of the Gothic Revival as prescribed by the New York Ecclesiological Society. This organization set forth architectural requirements and preferences for the construction of churches based on the English parish-church style.
More...St. Louis Roman Catholic Church, Buffalo New York
In 1829, the land was donated to the Roman Catholic community by Louis LeCouteule as a result of persuasion by Father Eadin.
After receipt of the property in 1829, the congregation under the direction of Father Merty completed a log structure in 1832. A brick structure, considered at the time of its completion in 1843, to be the largest church building in the United States, was built under the direction of Father Pax. A fire of March 25, 1885, in a nearby building spread to the church, leveling the structure. Immediately after the fire the congregation erected a temporary wooden structure which was used until the present church was completed in 1889. The church was consecrated in 1913.
More...Prudential Building (Guaranty Building), Buffalo New York
Built by the Guaranty Building Company, the Prudential Building was sold in 1895, to the Chicago Syndicate headed by Leonard Downis. In 1945, it was owned by the Prudential Company. The Buffalo Holding Company purchased the building in 1955.
When the building was planned and opened, the United States Weather Bureau occupied the northwest corner office suite on the thirteenth floor.
More...Darwin D. Martin House, Buffalo New York
This Prairie house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1904, is important in the development of a large private residence which contains open and versatile interior spaces. This concept of a single-family dwelling was not prevalent in American domestic architecture until thirty years later. The house was designated a Buffalo and Erie County Historical Site, November 16, 1971.
Darwin Martin appears to have met Frank Lloyd Wright in Oak Park, Illinois, in 1903. Martin and his brother, W. E. Martin, were out driving and passed Wright's studio. They were intrigued by its appearance and stopped to call on the owner. That same afternoon Wright received a commission for a house from W. E. Martin, 636 North East Avenue, Oak Park. In the following year, Wright received the commission for the Darwin D. Martin house and for the Larkin Building (demolished in 1950), The Larkin Company was a mail-order business which employed Martin. Other associates in the company also had Wright houses constructed in Buffalo, namely, W. R. Heath, 1905, and Walter V. Davidson, 1908. Mrs. W. R. Heath was the sister of Elbert Hubbard, who at one time was also associated with the Larkin Company. Hubbard is better known for his craft workshop, the Roycroft, which he established in East Aurora, New York--a small community approximately twenty miles east of Buffalo. Wright also designed Martin's summer house, "Graycliff," in the mid 1920s. The ink drawings on sized linen are dated in pencil, August 19, 1929. However, Hitchcock, in In the Nature of Materials, states that the house in Derby, located on the shore of Lake Erie, was begun in 1927, but designed a year or two earlier, and that the garage was begun in 1926. In addition to the above set of plans, the Frank Lloyd Wright Collection of the University Archives also contains a blueprint of the garage beams and columns by Jones Iron Works dated April 8, 1929. According to Hitchcock, neither construction was supervised by Wright.
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