<p>Buffalo has been called one of the most beautifully-planned cities in the nation. At the end of the 19th and into the 20th century, America's greatest architects, including Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright and Stanford White, built public buildings and private residences for its citizens. Buffalo also boasts a park and parkway system designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. These masterpieces have survived, despite recent decades of declining population and an eroding industrial base - a familiar story in the great northeastern urban centers. How? Why? The late Linda Levine, former art and architecture critic for Buffalo Spree Magazine, in collaboration with local author Maria Scrivani answers these and other questions about the preservation movement. The book features archival and contemporary photographs of the sites that make Buffalo a mecca for acolytes of great architects and preservation pilgrims.</p>

Beautiful Buffalo: Preserving a City

Linda Levine

maria scrivani

canisius college

<p>The decades between the Mexican War and the beginning of World War I revolutionized America's cities. Industrial prosperity produced an astonishing proliferation of capitalists and industrialists positioned to garner a disproportionate share of the profits. These noveau riches erected magnificent mansions, creating aristocratic residential thoroughfares in cities like Chicago, Boston and Buffalo, of which Delaware Avenue was surely among the most magnificent. Classic Delaware Avenue ran two and a quarter miles, from Niagara Square to Chapin - now Gates - Circle. Four generations of inter-Avenue marriages created a closely knit, complicated cousinry. Encyclopedic in scope, Buffalo's Delaware Avenue Mansions and Families is an immense book of facts that covers Buffalo's grandest avenue, address by address. Discover the tales behind these mansions and their illustrious families.</p>

Buffalo's Delaware Avenue Mansions and Families

History

Edward T. Dunn

Americas

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