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Author: Christopher Byrd

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The Eckhardt Building is Still Available!

27 July, 2006 Christopher Byrd

It’s been a few months since we began our marketing efforts and we’ve managed to increase awareness of this great building’s availability for sale or lease by

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Transfiguration Church Interior in 1968

26 July, 2006 Christopher Byrd

One of our readers, Charlie, just sent me some scanned sections from Transfiguration’s 1968 Diamond Jubilee Celebration book. I thought it would be nice to

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Architectural Details Close Up – Central Terminal “Crown”

26 July, 2006 Christopher Byrd

Atop the tower of the Central Terminal sits an octagonal “crown”, regally adorned with 8 cement fleur-de-lis’. Directly below, the 16th floor (although 18 stories above concourse

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Transfiguration Church in the 1940’s

26 July, 2006 Christopher Byrd

As per Michele’s request in a comment to my last post, here is a 1940’s photograph of the then-thriving Transfiguration Roman Catholic Church. Minus the

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Architectural Details Close Up – Transfiguration Stained Glass Window

25 July, 2006 Christopher Byrd

Stained Glass – Sycamore Entrance of Transfiguration Church “Transfiguration” (noun): The process or result of changing from one appearance, state, or phase to another. Enough

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Architectural Details Close Up – Central Terminal Bulletin Boards

24 July, 2006 Christopher Byrd

While I was out taking pictures for the car show on Saturday, I got a shot of one of the bulletin board display windows outside

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Cruise Into The Past Car Show

24 July, 2006 Christopher Byrd

Well, you can plan, you can hope that things will go well, and you can adapt when things don’t go according to plan. And that’s

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A Day at the Terminal

22 July, 2006 Christopher Byrd

I hate dreary, cool, days in the summer! It should be sunny and in the 80’s!  It makes me feel drained and depressed.  It reminds

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Alive Night 1.5 – August 11th 7 PM till ? at Arty’s

22 July, 2006 Christopher Byrd

Please join us at a classic Broadway-Fillmore tavern on Friday August 11th from 7 PM till ? for Alive Night 1.5… Learn more about the

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Polish priests would help diocesan restructuring (Buffalo News)

22 July, 2006 Christopher Byrd

Two recent letters to this column addressed [Buffalo Roman Catholic] diocesan restructuring; one favored closing churches while the other did not. Realistically, some churches need

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Broadway-Fillmore Alive went online in January of 2006. Our mission remains the same today as it did when we started. “To help promote the Buffalo’s historic Broadway-Fillmore neighborhood.”

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