Buffalo History Web Sites

Table of Contents:

• Government sources
• Universities
• Museums
• Private architecture and history web sites
• Tours and Talks
• Buffalo Preservation Organizations

Local:

• City of Buffalo - Property Information Search by Street or owner
• City of Buffalo - Public Art Collection Online - Paintings / Photographs / Sculpture / Decorative Objects

County:

• Erie County Clerk Some searchable deeds and other records. The oldest online records are mortgages going back to 1980.

State:

• Novel NY New York State offers free access to a very nice collection of
  proprietary educational databases and online products, including some
  good history sources.

Federal:

• Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER)  Search "Buffalo NY"
• National Register of Historic Place - Erie County Listings and Nominations Click on: "Basic Criteria"/ "County - Erie" /  "Results"
• National Trust for Historic Preservation
• PreservationDirectory.com
• Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties, 1995

• City of Buffalo Neighborhoods Maps UB Sc & Engineering Library Map Collection
• Cornell University Library - New York State Historical literature    Books, etc. online    

• Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society Museum
  • The Picture Book of Earlier Buffalo, Frank H. Severance, ed. Buffalo Historical Society Publications, Vol. 16, 1912 Excellent collection of photographs
• Darwin Martin House Complex
• Graycliff
• Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site

• Buffalo Architecture and History By Chuck LaChiusa. The most comprehensive site
• Buffalo Folklore, Etc.  By Nancy Piatkowski (deceased)
• Buffalo Full Text Compiled by Cynthia Van Ness. Listed here are about 250 full-text nonfiction books (monographs) and periodicals with a Buffalo, NY connection.
• Buffalo: My City 42 watercolors by Dr. V. Roger Lalli, with narratives by David M. Rote
• BuffaloNet  Buffalo and Western New York's Internet Historical Resource
• Buffalonian, The  2,600+ pages with search engine  
• Buffalo Research.com
• Buffalo Roots: Genealogy & Family History in Buffalo, NY Compiled by Cynthia Van Ness
• Buffalo's Old East Side Genealogy Working Group
• Buffalo Waterfront News & Information
• Built in Buffalo: How to Research Local Architecture   By Cynthia Van Ness
• East Buffalo  By Fred Jablonski (deceased)
• Elmwood Village Includes Elmwood Village Commercial District Design Guidelines
• Erie Canal - Links Compiled by Chuck LaChiusa
• Forgotten Buffalo Photos by John Fogerty
• Greater Buffalo Bottle Collectors Association
• Historic Markers,Monuments, and Memorials in Buffalo Photos and info
• Karl R. Josker Photos
• Mostly Vintage Buffalo Image Links   Compiled by Cynthia Van Ness. Genealogy and local history
•  Niagara Cultural Tourism  By Mark Donnelly. Includes Western New York and Southern Ontario  
• Online Buffalo City Directories - LINKS (BuffaloResearch.com)
• Pan-Am Expo - Links Compiled by Chuck LaChiusa
• Palmer's Views (Ken-Ton - The Community History Web) 59 photographs, drawings and maps by George Palmer published in 1910
• Postcards Compiled by Chuck LaChiusa
• Traveling Pictue Show Buffalo photos for sale
• Western New York Heritage Press Includes photos
• Virtual American Biographies Search "Buffalo"
• WNY Crawler A search engine that focuses on WNY

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