In 1938, when the City of Buffalo was searching for
a site for the new music hall to be erected as a memorial to retailer Edward L. Kleinhans'
mother and wife, heirs to the estate of Mrs. Truman Avery offered the mansion to
the City for a nominal sum. Illustration source: "Views of Buffalo," Pub. Exclusively for S. H. Knox. Portland, Maine: L. H. Nelson Co. |
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