Buffalo, it turns out, is a very interesting city with lots of sights to see, and we spent most of Monday seeing them. First stop was the Darwin Martin House Complex, one of Frank Lloyd Wright's earlier design commissions (pictured left below). Constructed in 1906, the complex includes a home built for the family of a local businessman, a conservatory connected to the main house by a long covered portico, a carriage house and separate houses on adjoining lots for the owner's sister and for the gardener. The original house is being restored, and the portico, conservatory and carriage house have been carefully reconstructed having been torn down after the house was abandoned for more than 17 years following the depression. We spent the afternoon driving up the Canadian side of the Niagara River to see Niagara Falls, which I had never seen and Max had seen once before as a young girl but has only a sketchy memory of doing so. The temperature had inched up a few degrees but was still below freezing, so we only got out of the car for a few minutes to snap pictures and then headed back to Buffalo. That evening Suzie and Bob took us on a driving tour of Buffalo, including several other less spectacular houses designed by Wright, and a boathouse that he had designed for the University of Wisconsin but was never built there. Recently funds were raised to acquire the design and the boathouse was constructed in Buffalo in 2007. We finished the day with dinner at the Anchor Bar (where we are pictured above), the restaurant that originated Buffalo wings. There was much more to see in Buffalo, but we needed to get back on the road on Tuesday so we could make it to Indianapolis by Thursday for the games Friday and Sunday.
Buffalo, it turns out, is a very interesting city with lots of sights to see, and we spent most of Monday seeing them. First stop was the Darwin Martin House Complex, one of Frank Lloyd Wright's earlier design commissions (pictured left below). Constructed in 1906, the complex includes a home built for the family of a local businessman, a conservatory connected to the main house by a long covered portico, a carriage house and separate houses on adjoining lots for the owner's sister and for the gardener. The original house is being restored, and the portico, conservatory and carriage house have been carefully reconstructed having been torn down after the house was abandoned for more than 17 years following the depression. We spent the afternoon driving up the Canadian side of the Niagara River to see Niagara Falls, which I had never seen and Max had seen once before as a young girl but has only a sketchy memory of doing so. The temperature had inched up a few degrees but was still below freezing, so we only got out of the car for a few minutes to snap pictures and then headed back to Buffalo. That evening Suzie and Bob took us on a driving tour of Buffalo, including several other less spectacular houses designed by Wright, and a boathouse that he had designed for the University of Wisconsin but was never built there. Recently funds were raised to acquire the design and the boathouse was constructed in Buffalo in 2007. We finished the day with dinner at the Anchor Bar (where we are pictured above), the restaurant that originated Buffalo wings. There was much more to see in Buffalo, but we needed to get back on the road on Tuesday so we could make it to Indianapolis by Thursday for the games Friday and Sunday. 
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