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Wheeler's Hotel: A Microcosm of Buffalo's Famous Canal District

A drama created not from the imagination but from concrete excavation, paintings and drawings of the time, legal documents and site observation. What it was like to stand on the Buffalo waterfront before the railroads, when the only highway was on the water.
Buffalo's Original Canal Terminus Building: Cantilevered Architecture on the Canal Basin

The first widely-known image of Buffalo's waterfront was an intriguing building.
The Historian's Notebook: Looking Backward 2001-1901

John Conlin looks back at the predictions made for the area at the 1901 Pan-Am Exposition in Buffalo.
Last Look... 159 Swan Street

The former home of an educational institution founded in Buffalo is remembered.
From the Gift Shop
North Park Theatre

Through a partnership with Christopher Behrend Photography, we bring you this photography book showing the end result of the restoration of the Art Nouveau murals in the North Park Theatre.
The Ice Must Flow

Through a partnership with Christopher Behrend Photography, we bring you this unique collection of the most intense & beautiful winter icescapes-captured during the incredible winter months of 2019.
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