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Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society Building
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Building from the south, 2006
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| Location: | 25 Nottingham Court, Buffalo, NY |
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| Coordinates: | 42°56′08″N 78°52′36″W / 42.93556°N 78.87667°WCoordinates: 42°56′08″N 78°52′36″W / 42.93556°N 78.87667°W |
| Area: | less than one acre |
| Built: | 1901 |
| Architect: | Cary, George; Gosling, J. Woodley |
| Architectural style: | Neoclassical |
| Governing body: | Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society |
| NRHP Reference#: | 80002606 |
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| Added to NRHP: | April 23, 1980[1] |
| Designated NHL: | February 27, 1987[2] |
The Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society is located on Nottingham Court in the city of Buffalo, just east of Elmwood Avenue, north of the Scajaquada Expressway, in the northwest corner of Delaware Park. It occupies the building constructed in 1901 as the New York State pavilion for that year's Pan American Exposition, the sole surviving permanent structure from the exposition. As planned, the (then) Buffalo Historical Society moved into the building after the exposition.
Designed by Buffalo architect George Cary (1859–1945), its south portico is meant to evoke the Parthenon, in Athens. In 1987, it was designated a National Historic Landmark.[2][3]
Founded in 1862, the Buffalo Historical Society's first president was Millard Fillmore. It has hosted observances of Lincoln's Birthday for over a century. The Society changed its name to the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society in 1960. Its exhibits, programs, and events are a magnet for schoolchildren, families, and students.[4]
From 1879 to 1947, the Society published pioneering scholarship on the people, events, and history of the Niagara Frontier. Many of those volumes are now online in full text.[5]
[edit] Research Library
Of particular interest to historians, genealogists, researchers, and house history buffs are the collections of the Research Library. Notable collections include the Millard Fillmore Papers,[6] the Peter Buell Porter Papers,[7] the Mary Burnett Talbert papers,[8] Larkin Company records and memorabilia,[9] and an extensive Pan American Exposition collection.[10]
Additional resources include 20,000 books; 200,000 photographs; 50,000 plans, drawings, maps, posters, prints, and broadsides; 6,500 microfilms of newspapers,[11] church records,[12] cemetery records,[13] and censuses; plus an extensive collection of pamphlets, clippings, and similar ephemera, all documenting the people, places, architecture, organizations, businesses, and events in the Buffalo and Niagara frontier region. A number of detailed bibliographies on popular topics are online at WorldCat.[14]
FRANK, its online catalog of books and manuscripts, is freely searchable online.[15]
[edit] References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2007-01-23. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html.
- ^ a b "Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. 2007-09-08. http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=1829&ResourceType=Building.
- ^ George Rollie Adams, Thomas E. Leary, and Scott Eberle (January 13, 1986). National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: The New York State Building, Pan American Exposition 1901 / the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society BuildingPDF (709 KB). National Park Service and Accompanying photos, from 1985PDF (416 KB)
- ^ Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society Official website
- ^ "Buffalo Historical Society Publications". http://www.bechs.org/library/BHSpublications.pdf. Retrieved 2010-11-22.
- ^ "Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the Millard Fillmore Papers". http://www.bechs.org/library/FillmorePapers.pdf. Retrieved 2010-11-20.
- ^ "Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the Peter B. Porter Papers". http://www.bechs.org/library/PorterPapers.pdf. Retrieved 2010-11-20.
- ^ "Talbert Family Papers, 1872-1933.". http://ke0008.kohaexpress.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=59779. Retrieved 2010-11-20.
- ^ "Larkin Company Bibliography". http://www.worldcat.org/profiles/BECHS/lists/771985. Retrieved 2010-11-22.
- ^ "Pan-American Exposition Bibliography". http://www.worldcat.org/profiles/BECHS/lists/676962. Retrieved 2010-11-22.
- ^ "Newspapers on Microfilm at the Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society". https://docs.google.com/View?id=df5swgb3_2693skvx2f. Retrieved 2010-11-22.
- ^ "Church Records on Microfilm at the Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society". https://docs.google.com/View?id=df5swgb3_31fd49mpcx. Retrieved 2010-11-22.
- ^ "Cemetery Records on Microfilm at the Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society". https://docs.google.com/View?id=df5swgb3_29cdpkgfgp. Retrieved 2010-11-22.
- ^ "Lists by BECHS". http://www.worldcat.org/profiles/BECHS/lists. Retrieved 2010-11-20.
- ^ "Welcome to FRANK, the Research Library Catalog of the Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society.". http://buffalohistory.hover.com/frank. Retrieved 2011-03-30.
[edit] External links
- National Historic Landmarks in New York
- Buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in New York
- Buildings and structures completed in 1901
- Historical societies in New York
- Museums in Buffalo, New York
- Historical society museums in New York
- World's fair architecture in the United States
- Institutions accredited by the American Association of Museums
