July 17, 2009
AGG 2009 Walking Tour
At the AGG 2009 Conference for my first official day of activity. Too much of a whirlwind to comment in depth but just one quick note on the walking tour of Buffalo.
The highlight for me, though not so much for the stained glass -
The Guaranty Building (wikipedia info)
by Louis Sullivan
now the home of the law firm Hodgson Russ LLP
I'd only ever seen Sullivan's building ornament in small fragments and to see an entire building, mostly intact, is astonishing.
Jaw dropper of a capitol.
the little downspout in the corner
even the doorknobs are covered with ornamentation
oh, yeah and there is some stained glass too...
I hereby nominate Louis Sullivan as the God of Militant Ornamentalism.
Check out Chuck La Chiusa's Buffalo as an Architectural Museum site.
Chuck was at the conference all weekend and proved an invaluable resource for all things 'Architectural Buffalo'.
[update July 24, 2009 - I've now posted a Flickrset of The Guaranty Building.
Posted by Tom at July 17, 2009 12:41 PM