The houses shown here look so familiar that you ll think that Gowans was writing about Buffalo. For a much larger but less frequently updated library database, search WNYNet , which is the combined catalogs of 600 public, academic, school, historical society, hospital, corporate, etc. The title search will not tell you when your building was erected, so you may have to use stylistic clues to narrow down your building s age. However, if you own a house in the city of Buffalo, chances are good that it was built between 1850 and 1960. There are several unusual resources to use for Buffalo architectural research.
None are available online.
These are just some of the resources available for architectural research. Many other books, periodicals, maps, and indexes can be found at the Library. If you are interested in a Buffalo building, pay a visit to the Special Collections Department . Chances are good that you can trace some of its history. From 1931 to the present, the directories have a geographic section, listing occupants by street address, which is key for tracing your building s occupants.