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Felix Shay

Elbert Hubbard

J. Howard Flower

Alan Nowicki

Pan-American Exposition Company

Ancient Athens, Renaissance-era Florence, and Germany’s Bauhaus community that practiced between the two World Wars are all examples of what Barton Kunstler refers to as a hothouse. He defines a hothouse as an area where creativity flourishes wildly and magnificently, producing results that neither nature nor the usual round of human activity could ever anticipate. Out of each of Kunstler’s notable hothouse communities came extraordinary achievements and he theorizes that a hothouse is created out of a relatively rare confluence of forces – 36 factors within four dimensions, to be exact. In...

Buffalo Urban Development Corporation

NY State Department of Environmental Conservation

Author, date unknown

Courtesy of B&ECPL Digital Collections

Elma Press

Peter W. Clement

Clinton Brown Company

Clinton Brown Company

Forever Elmwood/Elmwood Village Association

Photographs, letters, diaries

Early 1880-1910 embossed collectible pharmacy medicine bottles from Buffalo, New York

Barbara H. Willis

Upstate New York has historically faced economic hardships, and the cities within the region have struggled to cope with population loss, urban flight, and decaying buildings.

Catholic Diocese of Buffalo

Roxanne Cuebas

Anthony Hilbert

Jason Knight and Russell Weaver