Buildings & Sites

Lafayette Hotel (1904)

Louise Blanchard Bethune

391 Washington Street
Buffalo, NY
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Designed by Louise Blanchard Bethune, the first woman to be a member of the AIA, this beautiful French Renaissance-style hotel is notable for the rich chromatic interplay of red-brick and terracotta in its façade. Situated next to the Public Library, in its heyday, the Lafayette Hotel was one of the 15 finest hotels in the country. Originally designed to accommodate the influx of people expected for the 1901 Pan-American Exposition, the Lafayette hotel didn’t open its doors until 1904.

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