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You'll find here my personal impressions of my native city, Buffalo, and its surroundings in Western New York. A few entries present historical material, including post cards from my collection. Most entries show my own photographs, sometimes with a few words of interpretation.
All my entries, text or photo, are impressionistic fragments, or what Montaigne called "Essais," or "attempts." According to an article in the NY Times:
"Dr. Johnson’s dictionary defined an essay as 'a loose sally of the mind; an irregular indigested piece.' . . . 'sally' is a nice fit for Montaigne’s meandering collection of thoughts, and those of his more whimsical descendants."
There are many, many helpful web sites describing various aspects of Buffalo. The following three are a good introduction:
- Chuck LaChiusa offers amazingly comprehensive information at Buffalo Architecture and History.
- Cynthia Van Ness has well-organized, complete research resources and links at Buffaloresearch.com.
- Preservation Buffalo Niagara offers a great variety of walking, bicycle, boat, and bus tours led by an enthusiastic, highly trained group of volunteer docents. Find out more at Buffalo Tours.
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All text, original images, and reprocessed historical images in this blog © 1990-2012 by William P. Coleman. Some rights reserved. You may reuse, but only as specified in the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License or by written permission.Be especially careful not to reuse recognizable photos of people for commercial purposes: It violates not only my copyright but their privacy and is doubly illegal.
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Genesee Gateway
The Genesee Gateway is a project in adaptively reusing a series of classic buildings on Genesee Street in Buffalo, NY. It was across from the Washington (Chippewa) Market. One building is Richard A Waite’s Werner Photography Building. The first floor … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Buffalo City, Historical
Tagged adaptive reuse, architecture, Buffalo, Commercial Building, Downtown, Esenwein and Johnson, Genesee Gateway, Genesee Street, Italianate, Jacob Schwinn Building, New York State, Niagara Frontier, rehabilitation, Richard A. Waite, spring, waterfall window, Werner Photography Building, Western New York
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