Where the Erie Canal Meets the Niagara — Art Deco Skyline, Chicken Wings, and a City Rebuilt Twice
Buffalo sits at the eastern end of Lake Erie where the Niagara River begins its run to the Falls — the Erie Canal's western terminus from 1825, which made it one of the busiest grain ports in North America before the Great Lakes shipping era. The city's industrial wealth funded an extraordinary architectural legacy: Richardson's State Hospital, Sullivan's Guaranty Building, and Frank Lloyd Wright's Darwin Martin House are among the finest buildings in the American northeast, and the downtown is undergoing a genuine revival around Canalside and the Elmwood Village. Anchor Bar, where Teressa Be…
Buffalo sits at the eastern end of Lake Erie where the Niagara River begins its run to the Falls — the Erie Canal's western terminus from 1825, which made it one of the busiest grain ports in North America before the Great Lakes shipping era. The world's first concrete grain elevators were built here in the 1840s, inspiring Le Corbusier. The 1901 Pan-American Exposition was held in Buffalo, at which President McKinley was assassinated in the Temple of Music. The subsequent century of deindustrialisation was brutal, but Buffalo's architectural legacy survived, and the city is now undergoing a…