In the old David Letterman format, these are the ten most bogus urban legends about Buffalo & its history:
10. Buffalo has the longest, coldest, snowiest, harshest, worst winters in America.
9. Every house in Buffalo was photographed during the Pan-American Exposition and the Buffalo History Museum has the pictures.
8. The “Historical Society” or the “Preservation Society” won’t let me demolish/remodel/alter my building.
7. The stone farmhouse at 60 Hedley Place was built as slave quarters.
6. My title abstract dates back to 1804, so that is when my house was built.
5. The City of Buffalo Property database says my house was built in 1900 so that is how old it is.
4. The towers at the Richardson Complex (Buffalo State Hospital) were used to chain up mental patients.
3. Grover Cleveland lived at 51 Johnson Park.
2. The Niagara Movement (1905) met in Fort Erie because of racial discrimination at Buffalo hotels.
1. My house was a stop on the Underground Railroad. [Alternate version: my house was a speakeasy during Prohibition.]
New addition: City Hall had a fire and all of the records were lost.
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