Buffalo History Museum - Table of Contents
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Buffalo History Museum
Formerly Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society Museum
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Museum Court, Buffalo, NY
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First floor Central Court
Second floor Central Court
Second floor Galleries
Basement
| 2019
photos First floor Central Court   Black marble Roman Ionic columns ... Black marble balustrades with Roman lattice balusters  Note dentil molding underneath balustrade ... Monolithic (single large block of stone) black marble shaft on each column ... Note top of the columns (details below:)  Marble Roman lattice balusters Gilded dentil molding Gilded egg-and-dart molding Leaf-and-dart molding Ionic capital  Reinforced plaster dentil molding Leaf-and-dart molding on the abacus Ionic capital on smooth (Roman) black marble shaft  Grand Steinway piano  Crystal chandelier Return to top |
| 2019
photos Second floor Central Court     Modillions Ancones  Modillions with acanthus leaves alternate with rosettes Ancones with acanthus leaf below   Four ceiling details below:  Detail #1 - Coffered ceiling ...  Detail #2 - Single coffer  Detail #3 - Rosette flanked by guilloches  Detail #4 - Anthemia above flutes  Note top of columns (detailed below:)  Rosettes on column capital ... Black marble pilasters    Sailing of Le Griffon mural detail  Sailing of Le Griffon mural detail    Two details below:  Blessing of the Cross at Fort Denonville mural detail  Artist's signature: Alice Russell Glenny 1903     The Triumphal Bridge mural detail  The Triumphal Bridge mural detail Return to top |
| 2019
photos Second floor Galleries  Seneca Nation Gallery ... Notice Oliver Perry mural at the end of the hall (3 details below:)  Mural detail #1 " Perry's Visit to the Navy Yard at Scajaquada, overhead mural painted by Angelo Charles Scibetta. 1930's Works Project Administration (WPA) project. The artist is depicting the Seneca orator Red Jacket addressing Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry and his officers during the War of 1812. Oil on canvas, 6'5"x21', 1940, WPA/FAP." - Buffalo History Museum (online Jan. 2019)  Perry's Visit mural detail #2  Perry's Visit mural detail #3 - Seneca orator Red Jacket addressing Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry  Marble molding around the entrance to the Tim Russert Gallery ... Ancone-supported entablature (two details below:)  Alternating rosettes and modillions  Acanthus leaves decorate modillions  Part of the permanent Tim Russert Gallery display  Important map of the Buffalo waterfront and more ... See also details  Gallery ceiling detail: egg-and-dart molding  Gallery ceiling detail: Laurel leaf motif Return to top |
| 2019
photos Basement  Renovated basement entrance leads to lawn next to the lake Two details below:  Italianate Tuscan capital with prominent necking   Caption:
"This
simple, but elegant brougham style carriage had two owners,
one of them being former U.
S.
President Millard Fillmore. In addition to being
the nation's 13th president, Fillmore was a founding member of
the Buffalo Historical Society and served as its first
president. After Fillmore's death in 1874, the carriage became
the property of the Honorable Loran L. Lewis, a New York State
Senator from 1869 to 1873. Built around 1867 by Harvey and
Wallace, Buffalo carriage makers, this vehicle was typical of
the type used by upper-middle class Buffalonians."
  Adam, Meldrum & Company   Kittinger Furniture     Train display       Erastus Granger   Crow's Tavern   Holland Land Co. ... Details below:  Joseph Ellicott    Marking stone    Compass  Details below:  Holland Land Co.  Joseph Ellicott  See also: William Ketchum, "The Origin of the Name of Buffalo" (online Jan. 2019) Return to top |
