Fortunately, it is now a museum and has been preserved. They even bought the house of the caretaker recently. Which is on the adjacent block to the left. It was owned by a private family until recently.
Buffalo actually has a lot of guided age architecture that is quite beautiful. It was a great city in the late 1800s early 1900s. Keep in mind the Erie Canal started there. Then all the lake boats/ships had to unload there until the Canadians built the Welland Canal and the locks on the Saint Lawrence Seaway. that was the start of the downturn. Then in the 1970s the steel mills started closing.
“Keep in mind the Erie Canal started there.”
Yep. I definitely know the history. I even remember the song:
Oooohh, I had a mule and her name was Sal
Fifteen years on the Erie Canal...
I was raised about 15 miles from Buffalo and loved the history of NYS in 7th grade.