Classic Buffalo:
A Heritage of Distinguished Architecture

Text by Richard O. Reisem

Photography by Andy Olenick

Buffalo became one of America's greatest cities in the 19th and early 20th centuries. A significant amount of the enormous wealth generated in the City by the Lake was invested in buildings by America's greatest architects, such as Henry Hobson Richardson, Louis Sullivan, Richard Upjohn, Stanford White, and Frank Lloyd Wright.

Amazingly, Buffalo boasts more than 2,100 structures, plus numerous parks, parkways, circles, places, avenues, and even a cemetery, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Classic Buffalo celebrates the outstanding quality and diversity of Buffalo's architecture in striking color with many dramatic full page photographs of both the interiors and the exteriors of hundreds of the most interesting buildings and spaces in the city. Along with more than 200 extraordinary photographs by renowned architectural photographer Andy Olenick, are the fascinating stories behind these grand structures.

Classic Buffalo: A Heritage of Distinguished Architecture

Written by Richard O. Reisem

Photography by Andy Olenick

2000, 176 pages

Price: $39.95

ISBN 0-9671480-0-6