Archive - WNY Heritage

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Front Park viewed from the Peace Bridge. c. 1930's

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Depression Era Squatters: Outer Harbor-- 1930s

Images of squatter settlements along Buffalo's Outer Harbor, 1930s

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Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Terminal

Completed in 1917, the D. L. & W. terminal was closed in 1962 as the result of declining rail passenger traffic.

Last Look: A.M.&A.'s Downtown

The building that formerly housed the Adam Meldrum & Anderson store is architectural unique to Buffalo.

An Ornament to the Pavement: Frank Lloyd Wright's Buffalo Gas Station

In the late 1920s, Frank Lloyd Wright was asked to design an automobile filling station by former client and friend, William R. Heath. The chosen site was on Michigan and Cherry in Buffalo. What happened?

The Buffalo Harbor Ferries

They were as unique to the Buffalo waterfront as gondolas were to Venice. Something of our own – slipped away, lost in history.

Watercolor "Historian" Opens Buffalo's "Windows to the Past"

Painter Dr. V. Roger Lalli, retired from his teaching career, has completed 43 photo-realist views of Buffalo, now reproduced in a new book.

E.G. Spaulding, Buffalo's Banker

The career of Elbridge Gerry Spaulding, father of the greenback dollar, and the history of the Exchange he built. In 1845 Spaulding's Exchange was the commercial center of Buffalo. What happened to it?

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