An Endangered Form of Architecture: Buffalo’s Polish Cottages

Buffalo has been called one of the finest architecture museums in North America. With masterpieces by Wright, Richardson and Sullivan dominating our landscape, the city has begun to realize the value of our unique architectural assets. Additionally, historic districts surrounding a park system designed by Frederick Law Olmsted continues to be a source of pride just as they were when city fathers commissioned the projects over a century ago.

Progress has been made to preserve and promote large scale projects designed by well noted names in the architectural world. While the future of the Guaranty Building and the Darwin Martin House are stable at the moment, an architectural genocide is currently taking place in Buffalo historic Polonia. By the hundreds a unique form of dwelling, built to house the area’s immigrant population, is silently being bulldozed into oblivion.

An Endangered Form of Architecture: Buffalo’s Polish Cottages

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