Buffalo, New York is the home to several Frank Lloyd Wright designs. You can arrange to tour all of these locations yourself or take an easier approach and sign up for a tour called "All Wright, All Day" This tour arranges to take you to see the Darwin Martin house, the location of the Larkin Building, The Wright designed gas station, the Fontana Boat House, the Graycliffe summer home and the Mausoleum design. Lunch is included as well as a tour of downtown Buffalo architecture.
A bus designed to look like a trolley picks you up at the Forest Lawn visitors center and takes you all around the city and surrounding area.
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| The first stop is the visitor center at the Darwin Martin House |
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| The grounds of the Darwin Martin House are being completely restored and are now at the dirt stage. By this time in 2019 the grounds should represent the home as it looked in 1907 |
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| These portions of the Darwin Martin home have been rebuilt after having been demolished years ago. |
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| The mortar lines are recessed horizontally and flush vertically to play up the horizontal lines with shadow |
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| Our tour guide was very knowledgeable about Wright history and Buffalo architecture |
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| The Buffalo Pierce Arrow Museum is the home of the Frank Lloyd Wright filling station design |
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| In addition to the FLW fuel station design there is a considerable collection of beautiful classic automobiles |
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| Electric cars from days of old are on display |
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| The FLW filling station |
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| There was a substantial display of the role of women in promoting the automobile |
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| The Fontana boat house is a modern build of a design never realized in Frank Lloyd Wrights time. It is used to house racing skulls for use on the waterway. |
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| We listened to the docent with our tour bus in the background |
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| This is a model of Graycliffe, the Darwin Martin's summer home. It was a collaboration of Mrs Martin and Frank Lloyd Wright. |
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| The home is undergoing a major restoration which is nearing completion |
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| This is the classic window design for the Graycliff home |
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| This model shows the stairway from the cliff to the beach below as it was when the home was built. Decades of storms have eroded the cliff and destroyed access to the back yard of the home |
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| Darwin Martin asked Frank Lloyd Wright to design a marker for his future grave site. What came of that request is this design. |
Very interesting grave site. I'm guessing you don't use them like steps? Are people actually buried there or just a grave marker?
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