My 10 favorite Architectural Masterpieces in Buffalo/WNY (Tonawanda, Lockport: city hall, hotel)

[Thundarr457]

In no particular order

1. Buffalo City Hall - an Art Deco treasure
2. Guaranty Building - fine Terra Cotta Veneer
3. Darwin Martin House - A Frank Lloyd Wright gem
4. Ellicott Square Building - featured in the Natural
5. Kleinhans Music Hall - a Saarinen collaboration with world class acoustics
6. Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens - one of 2 tri domed Victorian greenhouses in the USA
7. Our Lady of Victory National Shrine & Basilica in Lackawanna - one of the most beautiful churches around
8. Buffalo Central Terminal - although it has fallen into disrepair, its a fantastic structure. I remember it as a child when we took the Phoebe Snow to NYC.
9. Buffalo History Museum - last remaining building from the Pan American Exposition
10. Old Post Office - Now repurposed as SUNY Erie City Campus

Honorable Mentions: Calumet Building, Roycroft Complex East Aurora, Lafayette Hotel, Graycliff, Richardson Olmsted Campus, Statler, Brisbane Building, Shea's Buffalo, North Park Theater, Old County Hall, Davidson and Heath FLW Houses, Edmund B. Hayes Hall at UB South, 800 West Ferry, Campanile, Cyclorama, Dunn Building, Knox Mansion Delaware Ave, Sidway Building, Buffalo Lighthouse, Chautauqua Institution, Forest Lawn, Kenan Center Lockport, Historic Palace Theater Lockport, Hollywood Theater Gowanda, Riviera Theater Tonawanda and Roosevelt National Historical Site

[Chukster]

Just came across this a minute ago, I'll add:

Unitarian Universalist Church of Buffalo, 695 Elmwood Avenue. Finished in 1906, Gothic Revival style, architect Edward Austin Kent, who died when the Titanic sank.

Nat'l Register Of Historic Places, etc. etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitar...rch_of_Buffalo