The neglected Sacred Heart School, located at Emslie Street and San Domingo Alley and designed by architects Schmill & Gould in 1913, is a victim of the high winds from yesterday’s storm, which contributed to the collapse of its brick, northern-facing wall onto an adjacent lot earlier this morning.

The building is part of a church complex that once housed the German congregation of the Church of the Sacred Heart, Read the rest of this entry »

TheHydraulics.com will feature an “urban scene of the week” of Hydraulics sights and scenes on a roughly weekly basis – weekly, meaning “whenever the inspiration and the camera intersect.”

This week, the highlight is the fence pier of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Larkin Administration Building, built in 1904 and demolished in 1950, with the exception of this one lone artifact. The fence pier, on Swan Street, is all that remains of Wright’s masterpiece, what was considered by architecture critic Henry-Russel Hitchcock to be “the most important building ever demolished in the 20th century.” Read the rest of this entry »

The 1872 Hopkins map of Buffalo reveals fascinating insights into the Hydraulics during the last throes of the Hydraulic Canal (built 1827) and the district’s transition to a center for large-scale manufacturing, connected by rail to the farthest reaches of the continent.

The location of the Hydraulic Canal is indicated by the 1872 map: Read the rest of this entry »