Buffalo Historical Museum - Buffalo, NY - American Guide Series on Waymarking.com

The Buffalo Historical Museum, Elmwood Ave. and Nottingham Terrace, in the northwest corner of Delaware Park, is a massive rectangular structure, neoclassic in style. The lake façade has an eight-column Greek Doric portico based on the Parthenon at Athens. Along the Elmwood Avenue façade is a series of three-quarter engaged Greek Doric columns. The building, erected as the New York State Building for the Pan-American Exposition, 1901, was deeded to the Buffalo Historical Society by the State in 1902. The architect, George Cary, also planned the additions built by the City of Buffalo in 1927 and formally opened in 1929.

In the portico is Charles H. Neihaus's bronze statue of Lincoln. The bronze doors at the north entrance, with carved figures by R. Hinton Perry representing History and Ethnology, were presented to the society by Andrew Langdon.

The exhibits, presenting a visual history of the Niagara Frontier, include groups reproducing historic sites and events; Indian archeology and ethnology; collections of pioneer articles, military equipment, American glass, pottery, and pewter; and a series of costumes illustrating the changing fashions of the Niagara Frontier. The library has about 50,000 volumes, besides important collections of manuscripts and newspapers pertaining to the Niagara Frontier. Lectures are given during the fall and winter.