history
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Millionaire's Row
If you know Buffalo, you're familiar with the nine elegant 19th Century mansions on Delaware Avenue. These were once all private homes of the city's most conspicuously rich. During the peak of Buffalo's Gilded Age there were more millionaires in Buffalo than any other city in the United States. Now, these once private palaces are home to institutions rather than individuals.
The Mansion on Delaware
Or... in the case of one, it can be your home for a night or two, or host your wedding. Built in 1867, designed by famed architect George Allison and restored in 2001, four-star hotel, "The Mansion on Delaware" is featured below. You don't have to be a millionaire to sleep there, but you do need up to half a grand for a night.
The Butler Mansion
Architect Stanford White built the grandest of the nine mansions in 1895 for George L. Williams, promoter of the Pan American Exposition.
Six years after completion the house was sold to Buffalo Evening News publisher Edward H. Butler. The house remained in his family for the better part of the 20th Century until his octagenarian widow died and left the edifice to the University at Buffalo.