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West Elevation - 1905 Building
Robert and Elisabeth Wilmers Building
1905 Original Name: Albright Art Gallery
2023 rebranding: Robert and Elisabeth Wilmers Building
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, 1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, New York
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Erected:	1900-1905 at a cost of over $1 million. 5,000 tons of marble were used in the building. When completed, the gallery had 102 columns, more than any building in America except the Capitol.
Architect:	Green and Wicks (E.B. Green's masterpiece)
Style:	Neoclassical ( Temple Front)

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1913 Photo

2002 Photos
2023 Photos

1913 Photos

2002 Photos

On May 17, 1961, the stairs were removed from the Elmwood side and a retaining wall erected: the grand entrance from Elmwood was erased by the new parking lot.

Colonnade: A row of evenly spaced columns, usually supporting a roof or a set of arches. Peristyle: colonnade surrounding a courtyard, temple, etc.

Alexander Liberman, "Bond," 1969            Pizarro

Marble Ionic column at right

Anthemion

Pizarro

Lion head gargoyles / scuppers    The lion heads are in the shape of gargoyles, but these seem not to function as drain spouts               Leaf-and-dart molding

Lion head gargoyle               Anthemion

Wrought iron

Lyman Kipp, "Flat Rate II," 1969

2023 Photos

Foreground: Great Lawn                        Left: Jeffrey E. Gundlach Building Center: John J. Albright Bridge, a serpentine glass skyway           Right: Robert and Elisabeth Wilmers Building

Great Lawn

Robert and Elisabeth Wilmers Building              Note that the staircase that was removed in 1961 has been reconstructed

Note the protruding lion heads on the sides of the gable roof                The lion heads are in the shape of gargoyles, but these seem not to function as drain spouts          Greek Ionic columns on the colonnade: A row of evenly spaced columns, usually supporting a roof or a set of arches.