Photo series: A Closer Look: Explore Western New York’s architectural treasures
This series has taken Buffalo News photographers inside, outside, above and, on occasion, underneath local landmarks and to places most people do not have access to. We have explored everything from Parkside Candy and Silo City to the Giacomo in Niagara Falls and the Roycroft Campus in East Aurora. We have visited temples, churches, ships, theaters and more to bring you unique looks at Western New York's architectural wonders.
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Take a closer look at the Seneca Iroquois National Museum in Salamanca.
Standing astride Lafayette Square, the Central Library of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System houses roughly 2 million volumes…
Buffalo's Central Terminal opened in 1929 to serve more than 200 trains and 10,000 passengers daily. The 17-story Art Deco style station was d…
The Maid of the Mist tours of Niagara Falls have been a staple of Western New York life since 1846. In 2020, the tour company launched two new…
The Guaranty Building at Church and Pearl streets in Buffalo is an architectural gem.
The Col. Ward Pumping Station continues to treat and pump water from Lake Erie for the City of Buffalo. The five, 60-foot-tall steam pumps tha…
Take a closer look at Silo City, the unique industrial site where four historic grain elevators are being preserved and incorporated into vari…
Buffalo's art deco City Hall was completed in 1931. At 398 feet high from the street to the top of the tower, it is one of the tallest municip…
The Spirit of Buffalo, an icon on the water with its distinctive square red sails, has become a fixture of Buffalo's waterfront heritage since…
A visual tour of Ellicott Square, which comprises the city block between Main Street and Washington Street. It was the largest office building…
The Saturn Club is one of Buffalo's private social clubs. It was designed by architect and club member Duane Lyman in 1921 and is designated a…
Kleinhans Music Hall, designed by the father and son team of Eliel and Eero Saarinen, was built between 1938 and 1940 to be the permanent home…
The silver screen returns to the historic Aurora Theatre on Saturday with the reopening of the East Aurora classic under new management. It wa…
Completed in 1889 after a fire destroyed the previous church, St. Louis Catholic Church is one of the largest in the Buffalo Diocese. Its gran…
The Walter J. Mahoney State Office Building at 65 Court St. in Buffalo was erected 1928-1932. Architects of the neoclassical monumental buildi…
First Presbyterian Church boasts Buffalo's oldest congregation, dating back to 1812. Its current home, built beginning in 1889, was designed b…
The Buffalo Museum of Science collection contains more than 700,000 specimens ranging across a broad range of sciences. Exhibits range from na…
Commissioned by lawyer Harlow Curtiss in the spring of 1912, the building that we know today as the Curtiss Hotel was originally home to a num…
Located in Buffalo’s Central Park neighborhood, Blessed Trinity was completed in 1928 and is considered one of the best examples in the U.S. o…
The Richardson Olmsted Complex is nearing the home stretch of a massive restoration project which will bring new life to the historic campus w…
The Babcock House Museum was built in 1848 by Jeptha Babcock near the shores of Lake Ontario along the Seaway Trail. This Greek Revival cobble…
As Lewis J. Bennett High School celebrates its 100th anniversary, explore the Georgian revival-style building through this Closer Look from 20…
The Gothic Revival building that we know today as St. Paul’s Cathedral is actually the second incarnation of the church. The first, a wooden s…
While the luxurious Hotel Henry and the iconic Richardson Towers have been reborn, there are 350,000 square feet of buildings that have yet to…
The iconic Dun Building at 110 Pearl St. was designed by E.B. Green and W.S. Wicks and built in 1893. Because the building is so narrow, the m…
Originally built in 1901 as a U.S. Post Office, the building came close to being demolished in the 1970s when when it was saved by a deal for …
The Thirty Mile Point Lighthouse was built in 1875 and decommissioned in 1958. Employees of Golden Hill State Park say the lighthouse has a hi…
Hutchinson-Central Technical High School, known to Buffalonians as "Hutch-Tech," was founded in 1904 under the name Mechanics Arts High School…
The SS Columbia, the oldest remaining excursion steamship in the United States, is docked at Silo City in the Buffalo River while work is done…
Temple Beth Zion, designed by architect Max Abramovitz, celebrated 50 years at 805 Delaware Ave. in April. It replaced the original temple tha…
The Roycroft Campus in East Aurora -- a National Historic Landmark since 1986 -- dates back to the late 1800s. Today, visitors to the campus g…
The Closer Look photo gallery series continues with a look at Statler City. Built in 1923 near Niagara Square, it was once the grand hotel of …
The Colored Musicians Club is the oldest running African-American club in the United States. In its heyday, it hosted jazz greats such as Dizz…
One M&T Plaza is celebrating its 50-year anniversary. It was dedicated on June 13, 1967.
The Darwin Martin House in Buffalo was designed by renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright and completed in 1905 for Darwin Martin and his famil…
The Mayer family has dramatically grown their business from a small cider mill, to being one of the largest family-owned beverage bottling com…
Daemen College's Rosary Hall is an example of Italian Renaissance revival. It was built circa 1912 as a mansion for the Crouch family and sold…
Take a visual tour of Graycliff, the lakefront estate designed and built by Frank Lloyd Wright for industrialist Darwin Martin and his wife, I…
The 1927 candy shop is getting its first restoration in 89 years, beginning Aug. 15.
After Amtrak departed the East Side landmark, the art deco structure fell into disrepair, victimized by an inattentive city administration, po…
The Millard Fillmore House sits at 24 Shearer Ave. in East Aurora. Fillmore constructed the house in 1826 and lived there with his wife, Abiga…
"Silo City" was the name given to this Buffalo architectural treasure by its current owner, Rick Smith. It consists of three grain elevator si…
The 127-year-old market at 999 Broadway Ave. in Buffalo has kept its old-world shopping atmosphere with family-owned and operated businesses s…
The Delaware Avenue Baptist Church, built in 1894, is for sale because the congregation of 250 members can no longer afford the upkeep of the …
This Tonawanda landmark was built in 1897 as an armory for the New York National Guard. In 2004, it was sold in a private auction to Mostafa T…
The Busti Grist Mill dates back to 1839 and used the waters of Conewango Creek to produce wheat flour, cornmeal, buckwheat flour and animal fe…
This Catholic church began in 1852 as a small wooden "shanty" church, built with $300 that a Cuba priest collected from railroad workers. Cons…
The Fredonia Village Hall and Opera House, designed by architect Enoch Curtis in what has been described as "Queen Anne eclectic style," was b…
The Buffalo Maritime Center at 90 Arthur St. in Buffalo celebrates the rich seafaring history of the Great Lakes as volunteers build, restore …
Lockport is home to Locks 35 and 34, the two western-most locks on the Erie Canal. The pair of locks raise and lower boats a total of 49 feet …
The Broadway Theatre was once a place for movie theater splendor on the East Side. The Beaux-Arts theater was designed by Henry Spann, who des…
The history of the Dunkirk Lighthouse goes back to 1827, when the first version of it was built on Point Gratiot. The structure that replaced …
Corpus Christi Catholic Church, at 199 Clark St., was built from 1907-1909 and is the seventh Polish parish established in Buffalo. Founded by…
The Holland Land Office presided over the surveying and sale of the large tract of land known today as Western New York. The building that tod…
The Buffalo Niagara Heritage Village, formerly the Amherst Museum, is located on 35 acres along Tonawanda Creek Road in Amherst. The nonprofit…
Architect and artist Dennis Maher has transformed a church built in 1870 into an art gallery, wood shop, architecture studio and home of the S…
Established by Polish immigrants in 1886, St. Adalbert Basilica has long been an iconic structure in what, for generations, was known as Polon…
A closer look inside Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church on Amherst Street in Buffalo. Designed by Karl and William Schmill,…
The oldest surviving stone dwelling in Erie County was the home of Revolutionary War veteran Warren Hull and his wife, Polly, who built it 181…
Our Lady of Fatima Shrine has become a place of natural beauty, art, communal prayer and renewal to thousands who visit the unique buildings a…
Wood & Brooks Company operated in Tonawanda from 1902 to 1970, making piano keys and keyboards. In 1970, Raymond Wopperer purchased the bu…