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The Buffalo & Erie County Public Library is located on Lafayette Square, Buffalo, New York, United States. The current facility, designed by James William Kideney & Associates and built in 1964, replaced the original Cyrus Eidlitz Buffalo Public Library Building dedicated in February 1887. [ 1 ]
The square was named for General Lafayette, who visited Buffalo in 1825. [1] The square was part of the original urban plan for the city as laid out by Joseph Ellicott in 1804. [2] Its eastern edge has long been defined by important civic structures; first, the Erie County Courthouse, followed by the original Buffalo & Erie County Public Library.
The brick Buffalo Township Public Library sits atop a limestone foundation and features a ceramic tile roof. [2] The library was constructed between 1903 and 1904 and was built by the firm of Greig & Baum. [2] The Classical Revival building was designed by the architectural firm of Patton and Smith. [2]
Buffalo Township Public Library Danville Public Library, circa 1920. Patton & Miller was an architectural firm of Chicago, Illinois.. Normand Smith Patton and Grant C. Miller [1] designed over 100 Carnegie libraries nationwide, including Buffalo Township Public Library, built in 1894, and 14 more in Illinois.
The South Buffalo area is also served by two libraries. The Dudley Branch of the Erie County Library System is located at 2010 South Park Avenue. The Cazenovia Library functions as an independent library and community resource center and is located at 155 Cazenovia Street.
In the spring of 1935, the library was moved to the newly constructed Lockwood Memorial Library building. Designed by noted Buffalo architect E.B. Green and built in classic Georgian architectural style, the building was an elegant, four-story structure located at the heart of the South Campus.
Boyer Reinstein was active in multiple endeavors, serving as vice chair of the Cheektowaga Public Library board and as a member of the Erie County Historical Preservation Committee. [27] She was a sought after speaker, and in addition to publishing map books and stories on county history, [ 27 ] [ 30 ] [ 31 ] [ 32 ] she and her husband became ...
The Adam Mickiewicz Library and Dramatic Circle at 612 Fillmore Ave in Buffalo, NY. The Adam Mickiewicz Library and Dramatic Circle is a non-profit membership-based organization founded in 1895. It is the oldest Polish American organization in Western New York and is the oldest surviving Polish library in Buffalo.