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Re-Wrighting Buffalo: Build the Larkin Rowhouses
Originally published in Buffalo Spree, July-August 2006, p. 150 (Updated 18 March 2010) Most architecturally-aware Buffalonians know how the Darwin Martin-Frank Lloyd Wright friendship led to...
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Introducing the Buffalo Architectural Index
When it comes to architectural history, Buffalo is an unusually sophisticated community. Decades of architectural journalism, tours, talks, and books have produced a lot of ordinary people who know...
View ArticleHow to connect with Buffalo History from the comfort of your home
When you can’t use our books in person, you can sometimes connect online. Every Buffalo researcher should get to know these online book sites. Google Books We LIVE at Google Books. For historical...
View ArticleGot a buck? No. How ’bout a burger? Click.
Like most of us, I get hit on by panhandlers. Like most of us, I don’t enjoy it. But I also want to do the right thing. Nowadays, I’ve been donating to the Buffalo City Mission the amount that I would...
View Article142 Years Old and Still in Service: Buffalo’s Oldest Bridge
Thousands of Thruway drivers pass it around the clock with a quick glance at best. It has been in service for over 51,000 days, built before the invention of the automobile, airplane, and Alexander...
View ArticleWhat is WorldCat and Why Do We Love It?
“The majority of information lies outside the Internet.” – Jens Redmer, Director of Google Book Search, quoted at Slippery Brick, January 2007 “What’s on the web is extremely ephemeral. Very little of...
View Article“I found a newspaper in my wall…”
Every few months, the Library (at the Buffalo History Museum) gets a call from a homeowner who is in the middle of a remodeling project. It usually goes like this: “I was tearing out my...
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The First Buffalo Chicken Wings
By now, everyone who has ever nibbled on chicken wings prepared in a particular style knows their origin story: in 1964, at the Anchor Bar, Teressa Bellissimo cut some wings in half, deep fried them,...
View ArticleBuffalo Will See It Through
Part of the process of preparing for a major exhibit is to get familiar with the relevant material items in our collection (The Buffalo History Museum). One of the things we did in the Library is to...
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Buffalo’s Newest Urban Legend?
The assertion first came to my attention a few months ago in the comment section at a popular Buffalo website. Then some folks expressed it to me in person. We may be witnessing the birth of a brand...
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