Eagle Tavern
West
side
of Main below Court Street [Liberty
Building
in 2016]
Benjamin Rathbun Source: Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society Museum 2002 display The Eagle Tavern is the largest building, with
dark brick and (wooden?) eagle over the entrance Source: "The Picture Book of Earlier Buffalo," Frank H. Severance , ed. Buffalo Historical Society Publications, Vol. 16, 1912, p. 161 This book has been digitized by Cornell University and by Google Books
The
Eagle Tavern is the building at far right, with (wooden?)
eagle over the entrance The
American Hotel is the largest building in the illustration;
the Eagle Tavern is the building at far right, only
partially pictured Source: "The Picture Book of Earlier Buffalo," Frank H. Severance , ed. Buffalo Historical Society Publications, Vol. 16, 1912, p. 163 Eagle
Tavern, 1825, by John Renfrew Dean, oil on
canvas, ca. 1925. |
In
the same year the courthouse
went
up, 1816, Gaius Kibbe built a spacious three-story Georgian-style
tavern and adorned it
with his own name.
Destroyed
by
fire in 1865. Text
source:
"Buffalo: Lake City in Niagara Land,"by Richard C. Brown and
Bob
Watson. USA: Windsor Publications, 1981, pp. 26, 31, 34, 36,
42 |