Official City of Buffalo Complete Online Preservation Ready Survey

Excerpts
December 2013
Preservation Ready Survey of Buildings Downtown, Northland, and Fougeron/Urban Survey Areas
Buffalo, NY

Prepared for:
City of Buffalo Office of Strategic Planning
Brendan R. Mehaffy, Executive Director
Byron W. Brown, Mayor

Prepared by:
Christine M. Longiaru, MA, Senior Architectural Historian/Principal Investigator
Mark A. Steinback, MA, Project Historian
Frank J. Schieppati, Ph.D., RPA,
Project Manager Donald Smith, Ph.D., RPA, GIS/Database Manager
Martin Wachadlo, MA, Consulting Architectural Historian



Table of Contents
Results of Architectural Survey 

1.1 Project Description

1.2 Survey Area and Setting

2.2 Architectural Reconnaissance Survey


3.1 Historical Overview of Buffalo   History / Building links

3.2.1 Downtown Survey Area   History / Building links

3.2.2 Northland Survey Area   History / Building links

3.2.3 Fougeron/Urban Survey Area   History / Building links

4.0 Architectural Context and Survey Summary

4.1 Periods of Development    History
4.2 Historic Districts in the Central Business District    History / Building links
4.2.1 Certified Local Joseph Ellicott Historic District   History / Building links

4.2.2 Certified Local Theater Historic District
    History / Building links

4.2.3 Certified Local 500 Block Main Street Historic District
    History / Building links

4.2.4 Certified Local Cobblestone Historic District
   History / Building links
4.3 Buffalo’s Film Row    History / Building links
4.4 Mid-Twentieth Century Development: Post World War II to 1960s    History / Building links
4.4.1 Other Mid-Twentieth Century Examples    History / Building links
4.5 Late Twentieth Century Development: Urban Renewal to Early 21st Century    History / Building links

4.5.1 Urban Renewal in Downtown Buffalo

4.5.2 Public Housing

4.5.3 Turn of the Twenty-first Century Development



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5.0 Conclusions and Recommendations ...............................................................................5-1

5.1 Historic Districts.....................................................................................................5-3

5.2 Individual Potential National Register Eligible Properties (NRE-I)............................5-21

6.0 Bibliography ....................................................................................................................6-1

Appendices
Appendix A: List of Properties in the Survey Area Appendix

B: Color-coded Map of Downtown Survey Area Appendix

C: Color-coded Map of Nodes 1 and 2 Appendix

D: Annotated List of Properties

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