Second Court House

Washington and Broadway Streets

architect: Joseph Ellicott

owner: Erie/Niagara County

years built: 1825-1855

demolished: 1876

The elegant colonnade, the delicate Bulfinch-like cupola, serve to indicate that the new Buffalo is no longer a frontier settlement, but a town architecturally closer to the eastern seaboard and the attenuated Classicism of the Post-Colonial, as transmitted by the books of Asher-Benjamin and Owen Biddle.