Mighty Buffalo
Buffalo’s “robust industrial past” makes it a must-see for architecture fans, said JoAnn Greco in The Washington Post. Many grand buildings from the glory years of this rebounding city still stand. After a walk past red-brick wharf buildings along Lake Erie, I stopped to gawk at Louis Sullivan’s 1895 Guaranty Building, a “terra-cotta-clad celebration of verticality” considered one of the world’s first true skyscrapers. At Niagara Square, I encountered “a veritable history of architectural styles,” highlighted by an art deco City Hall. A few miles north is Frank Lloyd Wright’s Darwin Martin House, a just-renovated estate that “in scope and mastery” stands with Wright’s most famed works. Many fine homes surround nearby Delaware Park, but “what really excited me’’ was the decaying former Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane. An overcast sky “lent the complex, like much of Buffalo’s dramatic architecture, an eerie Gothic chill.”
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