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Old 07-05-2016, 01:31 PM
 
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Just curious, but besides a place like Fort Niagara, what are some other historic sites in the Buffalo metro area?
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Old 07-05-2016, 03:09 PM
 
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Some historic sites in WNY:
  • 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
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Old 07-06-2016, 09:04 AM
 
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Some other places:

Millard Fillmore House in East Aurora

Millard Fillmore and Rick James gravesites in Forest Lawn cemetery

Site of McKinley assassination in North Buffalo

War of 1812 Cemetery near the airport

Grover Cleveland statue in front of City Hall

Mark Twain Room in Buffalo's central library

Karpeles Manuscript Library in Buffalo

Relic collection at St. Gualbert’s Church
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Old 07-06-2016, 05:54 PM
 
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Are there any historic tours or walks in the area?
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Old 07-06-2016, 07:03 PM
 
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All the time in buffalo
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Old 07-06-2016, 09:18 PM
 
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Originally Posted by bmd69 View Post
All the time in buffalo
Is there a particular tour that you would suggest or is there one that is more popular?
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