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Buffalo Booms 1825 - 1901 Wedding of the Waters 1830s: Rapid Growth 1830 city population: 8,668 1832: City incorporated 1833: Buffalo Lighthouse built 1834: 80,000 people pass through Buffalo heading west 1838: Army establishes Poinsett Barracks 1840 city population: 18,213 1842: Joseph Dart Millard Fillmore Born 1800 Moved to Buffalo, 1830 UB Chancellor, 1846 Elected VP under Zachary Taylor, 1848 President, 1850-1852 First president, Buffalo Historical Society First president, Buffalo Club Died 1874 St. Paul’s Cathedral Congregation established 1817 1849: Current building built Designed by Richard Upjohn Upjohn: Trinity Church, 1846 Gothic Revival 1888: Fire destroys interior; redone by Charles Gibson Significance: First major example of a nationally significant architect being brought to Buffalo for a major commission Bishop Timon & St. Joseph’s Cathedral Central Wharf, 1850s Buffalo, 1853 Canal District William G. Fargo 1818-1881 1844: Express line to Cleveland 1851: Express to Pacific, Wells Fargo formed Mayor 1862-63 & 1864-65 American Express Anthony Trollope, North America, 1862 “I began to know what it was for a country to overflow with milk and honey, to burst with its own fruits, and to be smothered by its own riches.” Railroads Forest Lawn Cemetery 1868: Frederick Law Olmsted Olmsted Parks & Parkways • Delaware Park • Front Park • Martin Luther King Park • Cazenovia Park • South Park • Riverside Park Henry Hobson Richardson Buffalo, circa 1875 1869-1871: Samuel Clemens in Buffalo Managing Editor, Buffalo Express Lives at 472 Delaware Avenue, wedding gift from father-in-law Learn more: Scribblin’ for a Livin’: Mark Twain’s Pivotal Years in Buffalo, by Tom Reigstad 1873: St. Stanislaus Parish Joseph Bork Present Building: 1882-1886 Mother Church of Polonia: 1887 – St. Adalbert’s 1890 – St. John Kanty 1893 – Transfiguration 1898 – Corpus Christi 1908 – St. Luke’s 1913 – Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Breweries 1875: Larkin Soap Co. Formed 1883: Belt Line Railroad 1889: Elmwood Avenue Streetcar Line Grover Cleveland 1837-1908 1855: arrives in Buffalo 1870: Erie County Sheriff 1882-1883: Mayor of Buffalo 1883-1885: NY Governor 1885-1889: 22nd President 1886: Marries Frances Folsom 1893-1897: 24th President 1893: Elbert Hubbard leaves Larkin Eastern Elevator – 1895-1900 Perils of Wood Grain Elevators Great Northern Elevator Great Northern Elevator Electric Elevator, 1897 Saloon Boss System Dock Strike of 1899 Downtown Emerges 1892: Market Arcade 1892: Dun Building 1896: Ellicott Square Building 1896: Guaranty Building 1901: Buffalo Savings Bank Green & Wicks Edward Brodhead Green: 1855-1950 William Sydney Wicks: 1854-1919 1897: First Presbyterian Church Oldest congregation in Buffalo (1812) Moves to “The Circle” in 1891 Green & Wicks Richardsonian Romanesque Tower completed, 1897 Louise Bethune 1884: Metcalfe House 1895: Williams Mansions 1889 – 1895: Delaware Midway July 4, 1899 Lackawanna Steel Lackawanna Steel 1900 in Buffalo Population: 352,000 ◦ Eighth largest in America 60 millionaires live in Buffalo ◦ Most per capita of any city in America 200 miles of paved asphalt roads – most in America Second largest railroad terminus in America ◦ First was Chicago Largest grain port in the world; 2nd largest milling city The Pan-American Exposition BUFFALO ON DISPLAY TO THE WORLD Pan-American Exposition City of Light Larkin at Pan-American At this time, the Larkin Company has approximately $30 million in annual revenue Pan-American Exposition Put Buffalo on grand display for over 8 million visitors .

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Larkin Historic District Appendix A
1 Appendix A – Architectural, Historical, and Cultural Significance Larkin Historic District I. Introduction The buildings, streets, and railroads associated with the Larkin Co. constitute a nationally significant cultural landscape. Their character, materials, craftsmanship, design, scale, mass, and relationship to each other and the surrounding city render them valuable to the city, state, and nation. They also stand as the embodiment of the vision, ideals, and drive of singular individuals whose influence is appreciated and felt to the present day: John D. Larkin, Darwin D. Martin, Elbert Hubbard, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Robert J. Reidpath. While built during the railroad era to accommodate a manufacturing and distribution company of national scope, many of the buildings have been successfully adapted to a new era and for other uses, such as offices, over the past 15 years. The structures and sites included are: • 726 Exchange St., Larkin R/S/T Building (1911-1912) • 290 Larkin St., Larkin L/M Building (1904) • 635 Seneca St., Larkin I Building, Larkin Power House (1902-1904) • 680 Seneca St., site of Larkin A Building, Larkin Administration Building (1904-1906) • 696 Seneca St., Larkin Men’s Club, former Sacred Heart Church rectory (circa 1890) • 701 Seneca St., Larkin B/C/D/Dx/E/F/G/H/J/K/N/O Buildings, Larkin Factory (1898-1913) • 239 Van Rensselear St., Larkin U Building, Duk-It Building (circa 1893) II. Geographic & Site Significance The Larkin Co. buildings are located in The Hydraulics neighborhood. Buffalo’s first manufacturing district, and a nationally important industrial heritage site, the neighborhood was established in 1827 by Reuben Bostwick Heacock one mile east of downtown Buffalo.
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2021 Guest Speaker Book
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