3rd part https://onlybook.es/blog/gb-wright-graycliff-the-home-of-isabella-martin-and-her-family-3rd-part/
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Tour of Madrid / NY / Dunmore / Bueffalo / Rochester / Middlebury
See 2 part https://onlybook.es/blog/wright-larkin-complejo-darwin-martin-midway-gardens/
The flight lasted less than 9 hours.
The immigration process at JFK Airport in New York was quite fast.
I had rented the car from Dollar, and I discovered that it’s a company affiliated with Hertz, and it costs about 35% less.
I planned to drive about 224 km that same day, so the trip wouldn’t be too long the next day. From NY to Buffalo, it’s 480 km. The average speed by car is 50 to 60 km per hour due to the speed limit.
If you don’t want to have to talk to the police, and especially not pay traffic fines, it’s highly recommended to travel between 45 and 55 miles per hour. That’s between 72 and 89 km/h. Very slow.
The next day, I completed the remaining 480 km, which took 8 hours.
From JFK Airport to Buffalo, it’s 479 km.
From Buffalo to Rochester, it’s 120 km.
From Rochester to Syracuse, it’s 138 km.
From Syracuse to Middlebury, it’s 264 km.
Total: 1.001 km, plus the extra distance covered while looking for the construction sites.
Pierce Arrow Museum. Architect Frank Lloyd Wright Service Station
The first thing I did was go to the Pierre Arrow museum where they rebuilt a gas station designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
It is at 263 Michigan Avenue.
The place has a huge number of bicycles, motorcycles and cars of all types, sizes and years, as well as related objects (helmets, gloves, glasses, visors, t-shirts, jackets, books, etc.).
As for me, the service station was designed in 1928 and rebuilt after its state of ruin in 2012.
It was from the Tydol group, Wright asked for a fee for each station that was built and probably due to economic issues it was not done. Strong stucco colors, copper roof and two copper posts with a Tydol sign between them.
It has 148.65 m² with gravity-fed gasoline tanks and hoses hanging from the ceiling down to car height, with no visible pumps.
Wright believed that since everyone needed to refuel, it was decided to create a space, like an observatory on the second floor, where people could enjoy a drink by a fireplace, creating a place that would foster communication between customers and neighbors while they waited for the service to be completed.
The station was originally designed for the nearby corner of Cherry and Michigan Streets. It was commissioned by William Heath.
They are open from Thursday to Sunday, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
263 MICHIGAN Avenue. Buffalo. Tel 716 853 0084. 20 USD entry fee.
Pierce-Arrow Car Company
In the 1870s, George N. Pierce’s company was known for its specialized craftsmanship, focusing on household items like birdcages and iceboxes.
It evolved to produce innovative bicycles, followed by motorcycles and single-cylinder automobiles. Demand increased, and in 1906, Pierce moved to a 140,000-square-meter factory on Elmwood Avenue, where the Pan-American Exposition had once been held.
On April 26, 1906, construction began on the new Geo. N. Pierce Mfg. facility on the Pan-American grounds.
Pierce-Arrow manufactured luxury automobiles for a wealthy market. Powerful, ornate, artistic, and sophisticated, symbolized wealth and status. Pierce-Arrows were the official vehicle of the White House for presidents from Howard Taft to Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the preferred car of John D. Rockefeller, J. Edgar Hoover, Orville Wright, and Babe Ruth.
Pierce-Arrow was famous for its innovations, such as the fender-mounted headlight designed by Herbert Dawley in 1914. Dawley also designed the iconic hood ornament featuring a helmeted archer.
The company created Travelodge trailers, equipped with gas stoves, iceboxes, water tanks, and dining areas. Pierce-Arrow produced more than 12,500 trucks used in World War I. The company employed over 10,000 men and women in Buffalo and boasted of using more aluminum than any other country in the world in 1915.
Richardson Olastead
I saw the impressive Richardson Olmsted complex, remarkable for its beauty and scale, with medieval architectural inspiration, showing the influence of William Morris and John Ruskin. Today, the Grand Hotel Richardson operates there.
Since it is not possible to see the Marshall Field Store, as it was demolished in 1930, I visited the impressive Ellicott Square (1896) by Burnham & Root and the Prudential (1896) by Louis Sullivan & Dankmar Adler, both inside and out.
Marshall Field’s was located on Franklin Street between Quincy and Adams Streets. It was designed by Henry Hobson Richardson, (1838 – 1886) built in 1887, and demolished around 1930.
Proof of Richardson’s influence and importance in the architecture of the United States is that, of the list drawn up by architects of the ten best buildings in 1885, five were his:
Trinity Church, in 1872/77. located in the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.
The 1883 Albany City Hall, at 24 Eagle Street between Corning Place (then Maiden Lane) and Pine Street
Harvard University’s Sever Hall in 1870, is located in Harvard Yard in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The New York State Capitol, in Albany in 1899, with architects Thomas Fuller and Leopold Eidlitz.
And the 1879/81 Oakes Ames Memorial Hall in North Easton, Massachusetts.
His best-known work, the 1872 Trinity Church in Boston, cemented Richardson’s reputation and provided him with major projects for the rest of his life.
Chicago. Marshall Field Warehouse Building. Henry Richardson
Richardson and his client Marshall Field defined the bases of what was going to be a new architectural typology: the commercial building, which we know as Department Stores, or Wholesale Store.
Called the Marshall FieldWarehouse Building, it was built between 1885 and 1887 and sadly demolished in 1930.
It was on Adams and Franklin streets. Clearly inspired by Italian Renaissance palaces (such as the Palazzo Pitti in Florence), this building was considered the prototype of the new commercial and office building that the architects of the Chicago School would refine and turn into a model that would be exported to the world.
https://onlybook.es/blog/daniel-burnham-y-el-edificio-ellicott-square-en-buffalo/
El Guaranty Building de Louis Sullivan y Dankmar Adler
La descripción completa y sus fotos interiores se pueden ver en este enlace https://onlybook.es/blog/daniel-burnham-y-el-edificio-ellicott-square-en-buffalo/
El Guaranty Building de Louis Sullivan y Dankmar Adler
El Guaranty Building, anteriormente llamado Prudential Building, es uno de los primeros rascacielos de Búfalo.
Designed by Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler, it was completed in 1896. It was declared a National Historic Landmark. It is located at 24-34 Church Street.
Internationally recognized as one of the masterpieces of Louis Sullivan, probably one of the most important American architects of the 19th century and recognized as “The Father of Skyscrapers”.
I was able to tour both buildings inside.
I saw Rem Koolhaas’s expansion of the Art Museum from the outside.
I toured the parks designed by Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903), the father of landscape architecture, who created, among other works, Central Park and Prospect Park in NY, and Franklin Park in Boston.
Other significant works he completed include the Niagara Falls Reservation in New York; Mount Royal Park in Montreal; the Emerald Necklace in Boston; Cherokee Park (as well as the boulevard system) in Louisville; Jackson Park, Washington Park, and Midway Plaisance for the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago; part of Detroit’s Belle Isle Park; the United States Capitol grounds; and George Washington Vanderbilt II’s Biltmore Estate in North Carolina.
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1st part. Wright, Richardson, Burnham & Root, Sullivan & Adler, Koolhaas.
2nd part. Wright, Larkin, complejo Darwin Martin, Midway Gardens.
3erd part. Wright, Greycliff la casa de Isabella Martin y su familia.
4rd part. Wright, las casas Heath y Davidson, el Fontana Boat House y el Mausoleum of the blue sky.
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