It’s an event the entire Buffalo community—for that matter, the worldwide community of architecture enthusiasts—has long looked forward to: the re-construction of three Frank Lloyd Wright buildings at the Darwin D. Martin House Complex, the city’s preeminent architectural treasure. This journey has been ten years in the making and marks the first time in America that demolished Wright buildings have been returned to their former glory. Today, the house that Wright himself referred to as his “opus” can be seen once again in all its breathtaking symmetry, the sorely-missed pergola, conservatory and carriage house re-built to Wright’s exacting standards. While work remains on the restoration (among other things, Wright’s magnificent stained glass windows will be replicated and re-installed and a new Visitors Center is still to be constructed), the National Historic Landmark Martin House is ready to welcome visitors much as Darwin and Isabelle Martin did 100 years ago.

While in Buffalo we invite you to also visit Graycliff, the Martin’s Wright-designed summer home in nearby Derby, as well as Wright’s Blue Sky Mausoleum, commissioned as the Martin family’s final resting place in historic Forest Lawn Cemetery. And be sure to allow enough time to tour Frederick Law Olmsted’s Buffalo parks and parkways, Louis Sullivan’s Guaranty Building, Elbert Hubbard’s Roycroft Inn and Campus and the other stars in Buffalo’s awe-inspiring architectural firmament.

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