The Common Council’s Legislation Committee will meet July 16 to discuss American Grain’s application, gathering community input to potentially enshrine the building as a beacon of Buffalo’s history.
"Rebel Falls" is a historical novel based on a lesser-known fact of the Civil War: Confederate spies on the Canadian side of the Falls hoped to turn the tide in the late stages of the Civil War.
Erik Brady: Remembering my father's 70th birthday – when 70 seemed old – with the gift of a lifetime
A favor from Tom Toles helped Erik Brady give his father a very special birthday gift.
Criticism of the broader Amherst Central Park plan is focusing on two project pieces: the moves of MusicalFare Theatre and Buffalo Niagara Heritage Village.
Four Western New York projects have been honored as part of the 2024 New York State Historic Preservation Awards, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced.
Today marks 50 years since the Buffalo Braves began their first playoff series in their fourth season. Game 6 of said series would end controversially.
You need only slip down to Sahlen Field to see the eclipse come April 8. You can see it other places, too, but where else offers the serendipity of a spot where Twain once lived — and where Bisons hit moonshots?
The Amherst Town Board has voted – at the recommendation of the town Historic Preservation Commission – to make a century-old home on Chateau Terrace in Snyder a historic landmark.
No matter where you were in Buffalo 40 years ago today, there’s a good chance that a little before 8:30 p.m. you said: “What was that?”
Six years after a new photo of Harriet Tubman captured the world's imagination, another rare image of the abolitionist has been released.
Seventy-five years ago today, Don Shula was a halfback on the John Carroll University football team that beat Canisius College, 14-13, in the Great Lakes Bowl.
Once upon a time, Canisius versus Syracuse was a real rivalry in men’s college basketball. It isn’t like that anymore.
“This book is the culmination of a lifelong interest in my hometown,” Brian Hayden says. “It combines my interests in writing and journalism and history and travel and tourism.”
Walter Mayer, Buffalo History Museum's senior director of collections is retiring this Friday after more than 30 years at the museum. He shares two of the more unusual artifacts among the thousands he has been in charge of managing for the last three decades.
At Dunkirk’s Shorewood Country Club, golfers from the U.S. and Canada will compete in the 100th birthday of the International Quadrangular golf match, better known as the Quad.
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Hills' 1983 back-to-school selections might not have been as cool as some of the clothes or shoes you might have been able to buy at the mall, but at least there was the hope of a bag of popcorn and maybe an Icee.
At that moment 60 years ago in Washington, D.C., for so many weary or scarred from the long struggle, denominations did not matter: With that speech, Buffalo's Clifford Bell said, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. "reinforced our faith.”
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One of the quintessential tastes of Buffalo, a recent “Buffalo Niagara Guide to Regional Pride” described Loganberry as a “sweet, deep purple, and non-carbonated fruit drink made from loganberry juice.” But what caused it to appear on the scene in Buffalo and Crystal Beach?
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The summer of 1939 was a hot one in Buffalo, which meant people were figuring out almost any way to cool off. By the hundreds, unofficial and unpatrolled beaches were filled with bathers making their ways into the cool waters of Lake Erie.
Decades after they were carefully hauled to the Buffalo Niagara Heritage Village site in northeast Amherst, the historic structures are now part of the museum’s planned move to the former Westwood Country Club along Sheridan Drive.
Carrie Stiver, executive director of the Buffalo Niagara Heritage Village, discusses the planned move of the museum to the former Westwood Country Club site in this 2023 video.
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With a “thick black pall” hanging over Buffalo, Mayor Bernard Dowd lead the charge for the creation of tougher anti-smoke laws and a smoke-abatement bureau “under the supervision of a college-educated engineer” during the particularly smoky summer of 1946.
In July 1987, a thief stole Theodore Roosevelt's watch from an unlocked, glass-enclosed case at the Wilcox Mansion on Delaware Avenue. For 36 years, its whereabouts have been unknown. That is, until now.
Big Ed Delahanty is the only man ever to win batting championships in both the National and American leagues.
Weinstein may have captured the trio’s success best when they were inducted into the Buffalo Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame in 1998. “I think Rick, Tom and I worked because people felt we were approachable, we were regular guys," he said.
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When “an eclectic group of about 500” gathered on the Buffalo History Museum’s lawn in June 1991 – it was Buffalo’s first-ever outdoor demonstration of gay pride. Organizers called the event a “coming out” for the city’s entire lesbian and gay community.
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Most people wouldn’t be surprised to find out that a man named William Scott built a log cabin near the corner of Delaware Avenue and Amherst Street in 1816. It might be a bit more shocking to find out that the frontier home was still standing when that corner was being cleared to build the …
Bannister’s laurel crown means more than any royal one.
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She was described as “fabled and sinister” and “the most fabulous and cunning woman criminal in the annals of the Buffalo Police Department.”