Misc. areas - Buffalo
Maritime
Center
90 Arthur Street, Buffalo, New York
Buffalo Maritime Center - Official Website
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February 2018 Photos
 The Buffalo Maritime Center has continued to work with schools and has been working closely with Maritime Charter School for four years. The students learn the STEAM parts of the school curriculum through boat building with volunteers that are very experienced in the field. The Buffalo Maritime Center is working with the Carpenters Union, which has been making scholarships available for the students. Their work with the maritime center gets them ready for apprenticeships and gives the students an opportunity to be hired right out of high school. Public schools are also interested in programs like this, and the center is currently in discussion with Riverside High School to start a joint program. - Schyler Norton, Making Waves: The Buffalo Maritime Center        |
| Foundry
While a majority of the space is devoted to boat building, Buffalo Maritime Center also has a bronze foundry, where interested parties can work on projects involving bronze works. This is really special because usually bronze parts are very expensive and have to be ordered online. Now if workers need a part for a boat or something else, they have a 3D printer that can make the mold and they can pour it themselves. The Buffalo art community is also really excited about this because artists will be able to rent out the space and use it to make bronze pieces for their art works. - Schyler Norton, Making Waves: The Buffalo Maritime Center       |
Model Collection Executive Director Brian Trzeciak          |
| Library On the second floor there is a research library with historical books about boats, and the center has just received a grant to build shelves for the books – two librarians who have volunteered to archive everything. Maritime historians also want to operate the library as a gallery for maritime paintings. Buffalo Maritime Center is working on an apartment on a second floor that would house artists for a few weeks at a time who would come to do workshops. - Schyler Norton, Making Waves: The Buffalo Maritime Center     Drawings by Dr. Robert Hager and John Montague   Packet boat ... Watercolor by John Montague  Commercial Slip ... Packet boat at left  Photo of the canal boat William Newman moored at Central Wharf on November 5, 1873 ... John Newman: Date of Build: 1872. ... Rig: Steam Canal Boat. Builder: Noah Squires, Watkins, N.Y. ... First Owner: Frank Snell, Corning, N.Y. ... First Enrollment: No. 84. Buffalo N.Y. September 11, 1873. Last Enrollment: No. 7. Edenton, N.C. October 16, 1879 ... "WILLIAM NEWMAN or Buffalo as she appeared November 5, 1873, on her arrival at Buffalo from Troy after running a distance of 345 miles through 72 locks in the extraordinary total time of four days and twenty-two hours or three days and ten hours running time, with a cargo or 121 tons of mounding sand. ... Source and more information: Maritime History of the Great Lakes (online March 2018) The Central wharf went up in fire and smoke in the early 1880's     Watercolor by John Montague ... Detail below:  Watercolor by John Montague  Watercolor by John Montague  Watercolor by John Montague ... Artist signature below:   Watercolor by John Montague |