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SLS 2001
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Buffalo? Yes, Buffalo! The "City of No Illusions" or, according to USA Today, the "City with a Big Heart"! If our warmth and accessibility doesn't melt the permafrost, perhaps our celebrated modernist architecture--from Louis Sullivan's magnificent early skyscraper, The Prudential Building, to Richardson's Buffalo Psychiatric Center, to Frank Lloyd Wright's Darwin Martin House (and four others!)-- will do the trick. Or how about the world-class Albright-Knox Art Gallery? Or this year's centenary celebration of the 1901 Pan-Am World Exposition? And a citywide grid created by no other than Frederick Law Olmsted culminating in magnificent Delaware Park. |
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SUNY at Buffalo |
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Pan-American Exposition
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If you're a technology buff, before Silicon Valley, Buffalo was
"The City of Light" the first electrified city in America and
the showplace for the wonders of the new 20th
Century as captured by the amazing Tower of Light--the centerpiece of
the new century's inaugural Pan-Am Exposition in 1901--caught on film by
no other than Thomas Alva Edison himself. |
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Albright Knox
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From the "City of Lights' to the would-be "City of Bytes," Buffalo has architecture, technology, artifacts, and a rich history of representations of nature, race, gender, and class (from the Pan-Am to internationally acclaimed Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center) to commend itself to the most cosmopolitan academic. Plus bars that stay open to 4 am, more theater than most other cities in America could even imagine, and music that can't be beat for quantity, quality, or variety--what are you waiting for? |
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Buffalo on the Web |
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Buffalo Visitor
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