Dale’s Daily Data: Buffalo Architecture

He was born it Utica, New York in 1855, graduated from Cornell University and was the eighth architect to be registered by the State University of New York.  He moved to Buffalo in 1881 and along with a partner opened an architectural practice at 69 Genesee Street that would be the beginning of a 72-year career and a relationship with a city that he grew to love and loved him.

In 1892, his company began work on the design of what eventually would include nearly every other mansion on Delaware Avenue which became known as millionaires row.  Among the homes he designed between 1892 and the end of 1893 were the Goodyear, Matthews, Foreman, Clement and Birge mansions.  He later designed the casino and boathouse for Delaware Park Lake and even designed the cast bronze lamps throughout the park.
He designed three buildings for the Pan American Exposition. 

Across the Northeast, from Indiana to Maine he designed more than 370 major structures, and two thirds of them were in Buffalo.  Many of them stand to this day.  Everywhere you look in this city, you’ll see his work.  The Albright-Knox Art Gallery.  The Downtown Buffalo Athletic Club, the Lockwood Library, Clark Gym, Crosby Hall, Hayes Hall and 12 other buildings on U-B’s Main Street campus. He designed the First Presbyterian Church on Symphony Circle, Mitchell Hall and Albright Hall at the Nichols School, Memorial Auditorium.  It was his idea for a sparkling gold domed building at Main and Genesee for Buffalo Savings Bank and across the street, he built the green roofed Genesee Building which is now the Hyatt Hotel.  And in the Hyatt you’ll find a restaurant named in his honor.  His name?

E-B Green.

SOURCE:  Buffalo Architecture Museum (www.buffaloah.com)