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Why We Need Municipal Sidewalk Plowing
When I moved to Buffalo 30 years ago, I was shocked to discover that the city does not plow sidewalks. How could that be, in a place that gets so much snow?…
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Build the Larkin Rowhouses
Originally published in Buffalo Spree, July-August 2006, p. 150. Illustration from Ausgeführte Bauten und Entwüürfe von Frank Lloyd Wright. Perspective, ground and floor plans for the Waller Workmen’s Cottages. Plate XL (40). Published by Ernst Wasmuth A.G., Berlin, 1910. Most architecturally-aware…
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Buffalo Hotels and the Niagara Movement: New Evidence Refutes an Old Legend
In 1905, W.E.B DuBois organized the first meeting of the Niagara Movement, a civil rights organization that eventually morphed into the NAACP. Instead of meeting in Buffalo, NY as originally intended, the group crossed the Niagara River and met in Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada. …
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If All of Buffalo Read About the Klan
In 1923-1924, the Ku Klux Klan set up shop in Buffalo. The Klan was not just an organization, it was an ideology of racism, anti-semitism, anti-Catholicism, and nativism. Buffalo rejected that ideology. Buffalo fought back, Buffalo fought dirty, and Buffalo…
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The Truth About Snow in Buffalo
The first iteration of this page went online in 1999. I knew it had changed the discourse around snow in Buffalo when I started hearing elected officials using arguments that I first presented here. Some Top Ten US Weather Facts…
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The Old Curiosity Shop: McDonnell and Sons Monument Company
Parks officials were mortified at the malfeasance. The Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument in Lafayette Square was cracking and crumbling only six years after its erection in 1882 during the city’s semi-centennial year. A structural review was undertaken, revealing careless workmanship throughout the…
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In Search of Buffalo’s First Professional African-American Architect
Some Preliminary Findings by Cynthia Van Ness, ©2001-2013 In the New York State census of 1925, John E. Brent reported his age as 33, making his year of birth around 1892. According to a biographical profile of him in the Buffalo…
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Top Ten Urban Legends in Buffalo
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…
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