Ben and I spent the evening retracing the footsteps of visitors to the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo back in 1901. That was the fair where President McKinley ended up being assassinated, and the grounds today are mostly covered with upper-middle-class homes, just north of Delaware Park (designed, by the way, by Frederick Law Olmsted, who I quoted a bit earlier today). Near the Buffalo Historical Society building, which is the only remaining structure from the Exposition, there's an old home that now houses some of the Society's offices, and these pictures were taken there.
The house once belonged to Julia Reinstein, whose family also owned the land on which the nature preserve
I visited earlier this week is located. It's funny that the property seems in some ways to be in disrepair, as it's clearly still being used as office space.
Maybe the idea is to create the illusion of something old and abandoned, or maybe the Historical Society has concentrated its resources on making the inside look good. But the exterior, especially in the back of the building, has the look of a place that is kind of falling apart.
Whatever... it was a fun place to poke around for awhile, and I don't know if it goes back quite as long as the Exposition, but it certainly had the air of something historical about it.
Ben and I spent the evening retracing the footsteps of visitors to the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo back in 1901. That was the fair where President McKinley ended up being assassinated, and the grounds today are mostly covered with upper-middle-class homes, just north of Delaware Park (designed, by the way, by Frederick Law Olmsted, who I quoted a bit earlier today). Near the Buffalo Historical Society building, which is the only remaining structure from the Exposition, there's an old home that now houses some of the Society's offices, and these pictures were taken there.
The house once belonged to Julia Reinstein, whose family also owned the land on which the nature preserve I visited earlier this week is located. It's funny that the property seems in some ways to be in disrepair, as it's clearly still being used as office space. 
Maybe the idea is to create the illusion of something old and abandoned, or maybe the Historical Society has concentrated its resources on making the inside look good. But the exterior, especially in the back of the building, has the look of a place that is kind of falling apart. 
Whatever... it was a fun place to poke around for awhile, and I don't know if it goes back quite as long as the Exposition, but it certainly had the air of something historical about it.
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