Buffalo Historic Homes
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Buffalo, New York

Buffalo's Architectural Heritage

Documenting the homes that define our city.

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“Buffalo is the only American city with a complete set of major buildings by the four most important architects of the nineteenth century.”

— Architectural Historian

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Landmarks of the Archive

125 Jewett Pkwy, Buffalo, NY 14214
North Buffalo
1905 · Prairie Style

125 Jewett Pkwy

125 Jewett Pkwy, Buffalo, NY 14214

Arch: Frank Lloyd Wright

28 Church St, Buffalo, NY 14202
Delaware Avenue
1896 · Chicago School / Proto-Skyscraper

28 Church St

28 Church St, Buffalo, NY 14202

Arch: Louis Sullivan (with Dankmar Adler)

400 Forest Ave, Buffalo, NY 14213
Elmwood Village
1880 · Richardsonian Romanesque

400 Forest Ave

400 Forest Ave, Buffalo, NY 14213

Arch: Henry Hobson Richardson

31 S. Grove St, East Aurora, NY 14052
East Aurora
1895 · Arts & Crafts

31 S. Grove St

31 S. Grove St, East Aurora, NY 14052

Arch: Elbert Hubbard (campus founder), various craftsmen

641 Delaware Ave, Buffalo, NY 14202
Delaware Avenue
1838 · Greek Revival

641 Delaware Ave

641 Delaware Ave, Buffalo, NY 14202

Arch: Unknown

391 Washington St, Buffalo, NY 14203
Downtown Buffalo
1904 · Beaux-Arts

391 Washington St

391 Washington St, Buffalo, NY 14203

Arch: Louise Blanchard Bethune

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Buffalo's Historic Neighborhoods

3 properties
Elmwood Village
Buffalo's most vibrant urban neighborhood, defined by a rich mix of Queen Anne Victorians, Shingle Style homes, and early twentieth-century apartment buildings along tree-lined streets.
1 property
Allentown
One of New York State's largest contiguous urban historic districts, preserving an exceptional collection of mid-Victorian Italianate and Second Empire architecture.
4 properties
Delaware Avenue
Buffalo's grand civic boulevard, once lined with the mansions of industrial titans and anchored by magnificent Beaux-Arts institutions.
2 properties
North Buffalo
A broad residential district encompassing the Parkside neighborhood planned around Olmsted's Delaware Park, filled with Craftsman bungalows and early twentieth-century Foursquares.
0 properties
East Side
Buffalo's historic East Side holds a diverse architectural legacy, with surviving Victorian-era homes, institutional buildings, and early twentieth-century workers' housing.
0 properties
South Buffalo
South Buffalo's residential streets preserve a remarkable concentration of early twentieth-century working-class housing, including Irish and Polish immigrant neighborhoods.
4 properties
Downtown Buffalo
Buffalo's downtown core contains one of the most remarkable collections of commercial and civic architecture in America, from Gilded Age skyscrapers to Art Deco civic monuments.
1 property
East Aurora
The village of East Aurora, eighteen miles southeast of Buffalo, was home to the Roycroft Arts and Crafts community — one of the most significant artistic movements in American history.
1 property
Niagara / Youngstown
The Niagara frontier, anchored by Old Fort Niagara at the mouth of the Niagara River, preserves three centuries of military and civic history at one of North America's most strategic locations.
1 property
Derby / Lake Erie
The Lake Erie shoreline south of Buffalo, including the hamlet of Derby in the Town of Evans, contains some of the region's most spectacular lakefront historic properties.
1 property
Chautauqua
The Chautauqua Institution grounds constitute a National Historic Landmark of extraordinary completeness — a Victorian planned community devoted to education, religion, and the arts.
1 property
Medina
Medina, an Erie Canal town in Orleans County, preserves a remarkable concentration of canal-era commercial and civic architecture built from the distinctive local Medina sandstone.
1 property
Lockport
Lockport owes its existence and name to the Erie Canal locks that conquered the Niagara Escarpment — one of the great engineering achievements of nineteenth-century America.
1 property
Brockport
Brockport, a Monroe County village on the Erie Canal, grew rapidly in the mid-nineteenth century as a prosperous agricultural and commercial center whose wealth is preserved in its fine Italianate and Greek Revival architecture.
1 property
Fredonia
Fredonia, in Chautauqua County, claims historic distinction as the site of the nation's first natural gas well and preserves an exceptional collection of nineteenth-century civic and residential architecture.
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125 Jewett Pkwy, Buffalo, NY 14214
North Buffalo · 1905

125 Jewett Pkwy

The Darwin Martin House is widely considered Frank Lloyd Wright's most important early residential commission and one of…

28 Church St, Buffalo, NY 14202
Delaware Avenue · 1896

28 Church St

The Guaranty Building — originally known as the Prudential Building — stands as one of the most significant commercial s…

400 Forest Ave, Buffalo, NY 14213
Elmwood Village · 1880

400 Forest Ave

The Richardson Olmsted Complex — originally built as the Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane — represents one of the gre…

About This Project

A Living Archive

This is a community archive documenting Buffalo's historic residential architecture. If you own or work on a historic Buffalo home, we'd love to feature it.

We document addresses, architectural styles, original architects and developers, historic designations, and the stories behind the structures. Every building has a history worth preserving.

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