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Art Handbook
OFFICIAL HANDBOOK of ARCHITECTURE and SCULPTURE and ART CATALOGUE TO THE Pan-American Exposition With Maps and Illustrations by permission of C. D. ARNOLD, Official Photographer BUFFALO, NEW YORK, U. S. A., MAY FIRST TO NOVEMBER FIRST, M. CM. & I. Published by DAVID GRAY, BUFFALO, N. Y. Entered according to Act of Congress In the year 1901, by DAVID GRAY, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. THE PURPOSES OF THE EXPOSITION By JOHN G. MILBURN, President THE act of Congress providing for a was the spirit of the corn-mission to the federal building and exhibit at the Pan- men intrusted with its creation in all of American Exposition states that it is its departments. They were left free to desirable to encourage the holding of the produce the best results, and it is under Exposition “ to fittingly illustrate the such conditions that they have produced marvelous development of the western them. They have received from the hemisphere during the nineteenth century management the fullest sympathy and by a display of the arts, industries, support at every turn. As a consequence manufactures, and products of the soil, there has been thorough cooperation and mines, and sea.” The joint resolution of harmony in the elaboration and execution Congress previously adopted declared of the scheme of the Exposition - a that this development was to be scheme of impressive originality, beauty, illustrated by a “demonstration of the and completeness, probably unexcelled reciprocal relations existing between the in the history of expositions. American Republics and Colonies.” In So much could not have been ac- these declarations the real object of the complished but for the association of the Exposition was comprehensively ex- Exposition with a grand idea - the pressed at the outset, and it has been kept bringing closer together of the peoples of steadily in view. -
Buffalo Architecture Research: Selected Sources in the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library
Buffalo Architecture Research: Selected Sources in the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Lafayette Square, 1904 Key * = Oversized book Buffalo = Buffalo Collection, Grosvenor Room Grosvenor Room Folio = A really oversized book! Buffalo and Erie County Public Library NON-FICT = Central Non-fiction, can be borrowed 1 Lafayette Square Media = Media Room, can be borrowed Buffalo, New York 14203-1887 RBR = Rare Book Room (716) 858-8900 Ref. = Reference book, cannot be borrowed Revised Feb 2020 Stacks = Closed Stacks, may be borrowed Table of Contents Getting Started .............................................................................................................. 2 How-To Books: Architectural Research......................................................................... 3 Books about Local Architects & Builders ....................................................................... 3 Books about Local Buildings ......................................................................................... 4 Architectural Plans, Drawings & Blueprints ................................................................... 7 Atlases .......................................................................................................................... 7 Buffalo Common Council Proceedings - Permits ........................................................... 8 Census Records ........................................................................................................... 8 City Directories ............................................................................................................ -
Ansley'wilcox House (Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National
Ansley'Wilcox House HABS No. NY-5610 (Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site) 641 Delaware Avenue j -../ Buffalo Erie County t T7X- New York PHOTOGRAPHS WRITTEN HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE DATA Historic American Buildings Survey Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation National Park Service Department of the Interior Washington, D.C. 20240 HISTORIC AMERICAN BUILDINGS SURVEY HABS No. NY-5610 HA8S ANSLEY WILCOX HOUSE (THEODORE ROOSEVELT INAUGURAL MY* NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE) 15-BOFy Location: 641 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, Erie County, New York Present Owner: United States Government Present Occupants: The historic site is operated by the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society and the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site Foundation, Inc., on behalf of the National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior. Present Use: National Historic Site and house museum. The house was opened to the public on September 14, 1971. Private organizations compatible with the historic site purpose lease the rear and upper portions of the house. Statement of The Ansley Wilcox House was originally part of an Significance; Army post--Poinsett Barracks--which was established in 1838. After 1883, the interior was remodeled and an earlier frame addition was rebuilt. On September 14, 1901, in the library of the Ansley Wilcox House, Vice-president Theodore Roosevelt took the Oath of office of the President of the United States. The house was declared a National Historic Site in 1966. PART I. HISTORICAL INFORMATION A. Physical History: 1. Date of erection: 1838. The Poinsett Barracks were dedicated by President Martin Van Buren in 1839. 2. Architect: Poinsett Barracks, the Ansley Wilcox House, was designed and constructed by the United States Army Engineers under the direction of General Winfield Scott. -
JOHN CARY the Plymouth Pilgrim
JOHN CARY the Plymouth Pilgrim A p&0ple whic/1 takes no pride in noble achieve• ments of remote ancestors, will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants .. -Macaulay. By SETH C. CARY PubU~hed by S E T H C. C A R Y, DORCHESTER CENTER, BOST ON, MASSACHUSETTS 1 9 1 1 ~e?nmtw TO THE DESCENDANTS OF ~foqu (!! at'\? SETH C CARY. PUBLl:iHER The Story of the Cary Coat of Arms .. f As TOLD BY THE OLD CHRONICLERS, "In the beginning of the reign of Henry V. (1413-1422) a certain Knight-errant of Aragon, having passed through divers countries, and performed many feats of Arms, arrived here in England, where he challenged any man of his rank and quality to make a trial of his skill in arms. This challenge was accepted by Sir Robert Cary, between whom a cruel encount,er, and a long and doubtful combat was waged in Smithfield, London. But at length this noble Champion vanquished the presumptuous Aragonois, for which King Henry V. restored unto him a good part of his father's lands, which for his loyalty to Richard II. he had been deprived of by Henry IV. and authorized him to bear the Arms of a Knight of Aragon, which the noble posterity continue to wear unto this day; for according to the laws of Heraldry, whoever fairly in the field conquers his adversary may justify the wearing of his Arms."-Burke's Heraldry. Another account is so quaint that it is placed before the reader: "In the time of Henry V.