Tim Tielman’s Grand Tour offers more buildings, more neighborhoods, more stories, more impressions, and more understanding of The City of Buffalo. It is a special 3-hour Grand Tour that covers The Old First Ward and Kelly Island grain elevators, downtown, the Martin House and Parkside, Central Terminal and Larkinville and a whole lot more.
The Campaign for Greater Buffalo's Open-Air Autobus is in the stretch run of the 2022 season. That means the chance for members to score a pair of free seats—space permitting—is winding down.
There are three special tours left: Tim Tielman’s Grand Tour on the 10th, Chris Hawley’s Belt Line (Lofty Expectations) on the 16th, and Paul McDonnell’s wall-to-wall Green & Wicks tour (Building Buffalo) on the 17th. Call or text 716-854-3749 now to puts dibs on a pair of seats!
Not a member? You can make a reservation online or by calling 716-854-3749. But do it now, beacuse the season’s almost over!
It is one of Buffalo’s Hide-in-Plain-Sight secrets: The NY Central Belt Line of the 1880’s, the city’s most consequential transportation project since the Erie Canal. The Belt Line attracted huge industrial plants like Pierce-Arrow, Ford Motor, Larkin Soap, and, of course, the titanic NY Central Terminal itself. Many of the Belt Line factories have been converted into loft apartments and offices, with more in the pipeline.
E.B. Green and William Sydney Wicks made up Buffalo’s most distinguished arhitectural firm from the 1880’s to 1910. They designed over 100 buildings, many of them superb examples of their type, whether office building, hotel, apartment building or grandiose mansion. The number and quality of commissions is staggering. Campaign president Paul McDonnell, the president-elect of the New York AIA, is your guide.
