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The H.H. Richardson Complex
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Guaranty Building
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City Hall
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Elicott Square Building Interior
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Tour Buffalo, Niagara Falls with the Chicago Architecture Foundation
September 19 – 23, 2012
Home to some of the greatest American architecture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Buffalo, NY features the work of legendary architects including Henry Hobson Richardson, Daniel Burnham, Frederick Law Olmsted, Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright.
Explore the works of these great architectural masters during an exclusive CAF Members-only travel tour of Buffalo. This 4-day excursion includes special dinners, guest speakers and exclusive tours of some extraordinary architectural gems including:
- Guaranty Building—considered the most perfect of Adler and Sullivan’s remaining major works, the 1896 Guaranty Building has been meticulously restored, exemplifying Sullivan’s requirement of a skyscraper: “it must be tall, every inch of it tall”
- Ellicott Square Building—opened in 1896 as the largest office building in the world, it was designed by Daniel Burnham and may remind Chicagoans of the architect’s Chicago masterpiece, the Rookery
- McKinley Monument—planned by Daniel Burnham, it was dedicated in 1907 following McKinley’s assassination just 6 years earlier
- H.H. Richardson Complex—formerly the Buffalo State Asylum from 1870, it was Richardson’s first major, and largest ever project. Vacant for decades, it has recently been stabilized and is slated to become a city visitor and architecture center.
- Darwin D. Martin House—with strong Chicago ties, this Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home from 1905 is considered one of the most important projects of Wright’s Prairie School era. We’ll also visit other Wright-designed gems including a rower’s boathouse, a mausoleum and a gas station.
- Olmsted Parkways and Parks—landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux began their Buffalo commissions in 1868, early enough to make a big difference in the city’s development. Vast public parks are connected by meandering residential parkways. Olmsted wrote “[it is] the best planned city, as to its streets, public places and grounds, in the United States”.
Our trip also includes visits to see where the Erie Canal meets the Great Lakes; Buffalo’s iconic grain elevators; and the Roycroft colony — a community founded in 1895 that has had a major influence on the American Arts and Crafts movement.
Extend your trip to 5 days! The optional day in Canada (September 19-20) includes a tour and boat cruise of Niagara Falls on the famous Maid-of-the-Mist cruise line. We’ll overnight at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada’s first capital and a focus of the 200th anniversary celebrations for the War of 1812.
This tour to Buffalo is open to CAF Members only. Space is limited!
More information about Buffalo can be found at:
Saving Buffalo's Untold Beauty in New York Times (2008)
To reserve your space, complete the registration form below. For more information please contact Larren Austin at 312.922.3432, ext.263 or email laustin@architecture.org
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