Buffalo's Delaware Avenue: Mansions and Families: Second Edition, with Index

The decades between the Mexican War and the beginning of World War I revolutionized America’s cities. Industrial prosperity produced an astonishing proliferation of capitalists and industrialists positioned to garner a disproportionate share of the profits. These noveau riches erected magnificent mansions, creating aristocratic residential thoroughfares in cities like Chicago, Boston and Buffalo, of which Delaware Avenue was surely among the most magnificent. Classic Delaware Avenue ran two and a quarter miles, from Niagara Square to Chapin—now Gates—Circle. Four generations of inter-Avenue marriages created a closely knit, complicated cousinry. Encyclopedic in scope, Buffalo’s Delaware Avenue: Mansions and Families is an immense book of facts that covers Buffalo’s grandest Avenue and provides unique insight into the city’s history.

Originally published by Canisius College Press in 2003, this 2nd edition includes a robust, four-part Index that provides excellent access to the book's amazing contents, house by house, family by family.

Discover the tales behind these mansions and their illustrious families.