The Buffalo History Museum (previously known as the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society) is located at 1 Museum Court (formerly 25 Nottingham Court) in the city of Buffalo, just east of Elmwood Avenue and off of Nottingham Terrace, north of the Scajaquada Expressway, in the northwest corner of Delaware Park. It occupies the building constructed in 1901 as the New York State pavilion for that year's Pan American Exposition, the sole surviving permanent structure from the exposition. As planned, the (then) Buffalo Historical Society moved into the building after the exposition.
Designed by Buffalo architect George Cary (1859–1945), its south portico is meant to evoke the Parthenon, in Athens. In 1987, it was designated a National Historic Landmark.
Founded in 1862, the Buffalo Historical Society's first president was Millard Fillmore. It has hosted observances of Lincoln's Birthday for over a century. The Society changed its name to the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society in 1960 and in October 2012 became the Buffalo History Museum. Its exhibits, programs, and events are a magnet for schoolchildren, families, and students.
From 1879 to 1947, the Society published pioneering scholarship on the people, events, and history of the Niagara Frontier. Many of those volumes are now online in full text.
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