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Article: Terra cotta treasures: Experts consider the lavish ornamentations used on many of Buffalo's most impressive buildings among the best in the nation.
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- The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY)
- Article date:
- January 28, 2007
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Byline: Mark Sommer
Jan. 28--Like frosting on a cake, terra cotta decorates dozens of Buffalo's most celebrated downtown buildings. Lavish ornamentations can be seen in the grand, rust-colored Guaranty Building, the ornate archways of the Market Arcade, the enchanting cream and burnt sienna-glazed Calumet Building, the more restrained, green-tiled Ansonia Centre.
It's small wonder Buffalo's terra cotta structures -- designed by some of the best national and local architects of their day, from Chicago's Louis Sullivan to Buffalonians Esenwein & Johnson -- are considered among the nation's best. "I see Buffalo as a microcosm of some of the best ...