For its size, the city of Buffalo, New York, possesses a
remarkable number and variety of architectural masterpieces from
the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: Adler and
Sullivan's Prudential building, H. H. Richardson's massive
Buffalo State Hospital, Richard Upjohn's Sr. Paul's Episcopal
Cathedral, five prairie houses by Frank Lloyd Wright, and
building by Daniel Burnham, Albert Kahn, and the firms of McKim,
Mead, and White, and Lockwood, Green and Company, among others.
These structures by prominent "outsiders" served to spur the
efforts of local architects, builders, and craftsmen, and all of
them built within the context of the city-wide park and parkway
system designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. In addition, the city
and its environs exhibit representative works by more recent
architects, among them Eero and Eliel Saarinen, Walther Gropius,
Marcel Breuer, Paul Rudloph, Minoru Yamasaki, and the firm of
Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill. Buffalo's rich architectural and
planning heritage has attra