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The Theodore Roosevelt National Historic site near downtown Buffalo where TR took the oath of office after McKinley died. It's one of only a very few such sites outside of Washington DC.
The Erie Basin (Commercial Slip), which was the western terminus of the Erie Canal. The historic 1833 Buffalo Light marking the harbor entrance has been refurbished and relighted. The Canalside entertainment/recreational district occupies what was one of the first "red light" districts in a US port, a precursor of SF's Barbary Coast; the Canal Street neighborhood was infamous in the mid 1800s for vice, lawlessness, etc.
The Buffalo History Museum is the only permanent surviving building that was used in the Pan American Exposition of 1901 where William McKinley was assassinated. It was the New York State pavilion. The Albright Knox Art Gallery was built for the Exposition but wasn't completed in time. It is home to a world-class collection of modern art.
The Olmstead Parks System designed by Frederick Law Olmstead, which was one of the few entire systems of parks and connecting boulevards ever built in the US, and some of it still exists.
Chautauqua Institute, on the shore of Chautauqua Lake, began as a summer retreat/improvement camp for Sunday school teachers in the 1870s. It eventually became a seasonal center of art/culture/learning that remains world famous, and it spawned the "chautauqua movement" for adult education that spread across rural America from the late 1800s until about the 1920s.
Numerous buildings on the National Register of Historic Places: Buffalo Landmarks
Is there a particular tour that you would suggest or is there one that is more popular?
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