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Little Harlem Hotel and Nightclub 496 Michigan Avenue This collage illustrates the multiple firsts embodied by this project on Buffalo’s East Side. Commissioned as an ice cream parlor around 1910 by one of the city’s first Black businesswomen, Anne Montgomery, it was...
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Hotel Lafayette 391 Washington Street Hotel Lafayette is a seven-story steel frame, concrete building designed in the French Renaissance style. It features decorative vitreous red brick and white terra cotta trim and was com- posed of several smaller rectangular...
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Ellicott District Recreation Center 114 Hickory Street This building, initially known as the Ellicott District Recreation Center and now identified as the John F. Kennedy Recreation Center, was designed by Buffalo native Robert Traynham Coles. Its façade and...
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Statuary of Willert Park Courts 406 Jefferson Avenue Willert Park Courts is representative of PWA projects for public housing in its high-quality construction and incorporation of New Deal-style artwork, which included representations of the African American...
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Colored Musicians Club 145 Broadway Designated a historic preservation site in 1999, the Colored Musicians Club is the only remaining Black-owned and operated club of its kind in the United States. The club’s origins are found in Local 43, a chapter of the American...
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YMCA Building 585 Michigan Avenue The Young Men’s Christian Association building on Michigan Avenue was designed by John Edmonton Brent, the second African American to design such a building for a Black community in the United States. Brent was educated at Tuskegee...
