1. Albright-Knox Art Gallery
2. Burchfield-Penney Art Center
3. Buffalo Psychiatric Center
4. Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society
5. Delaware Park
6. Darwin D. Martin Complex
7. Graycliff
8. Chautauqua Institution
9. Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History
10. Ellicottville
11. East Aurora, Roycroft Inn, Roycroft Shops and Vidler's 5 and 10

HISTORY, MYSTERY & BEAUTY:
BUFFALO NIAGARA HERITAGE TRAIL SOUTH

Begin your trip at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery at 1285 Elmwood Avenue in Buffalo. The Albright-Knox has been called “one of the world’s top international surveys of modern and contemporary painting and sculpture.”

Across the street from the Albright-Knox at the Burchfield-Penney Art Center (1300 Elmwood Avenue) you’ll find an outstanding collection of regional art built around the work of the great American watercolorist Charles Burchfield, best known for his romantic, often fantastic depictions of nature.

Just around the corner at 400 Forest Avenue, take in the soaring red Medina sandstone towers of H.H. Richardson’s Buffalo Psychiatric Center, a Romanesque monument that presides over the city’s West Side.

At the corner of Forest and Elmwood, go left and retrace your steps past the Albright-Knox and Burchfield-Penney. Take a right on Nottingham Terrace. Pass the Grecian columns of the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society. This is the only building remaining from Buffalo’s World’s Fair, the 1901 Pan-American Exposition. Continue on Nottingham alongside the Meadow of Frederick Law Olmsted’s Delaware Park, the centerpiece of his Buffalo parks system.

At Amherst Street, go right two blocks to Parkside Avenue, then right two blocks to Jewett Parkway. Proceed left on Jewett two blocks to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Darwin D. Martin Estate. Currently undergoing an extensive renovation, the estate consists of the Martin House, the George Barton House and a modest two-story cottage known as the Gardener’s
Cottage.

From Darwin Martin’s city house go south to his country getaway, Graycliff, also designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Take a left on Parkside Avenue to the Scajaquada Expressway (Route 198) West. Take I-190 South to the New York State Thruway (I-90) West. Proceed to Exit 57 (Hamburg) to Route 75 North. Take a left onto Route 20 West. Proceed five miles and go right on South Creek Road. Follow South Creek to its end and follow the Graycliff signs. Situated on a 70-foot cliff overlooking Lake Erie in Derby, Graycliff served as Darwin and Isabelle Martin’s summer retreat from 1928 through the mid-‘40s.

From Graycliff, return to the New York State Thruway and go west to Exit 60 at Westfield. Take Route 394 east to Mayville and on to the Chautauqua Institution. Founded in 1874, Chautauqua is a National Historic Landmark and vibrant summer community.

From Chautauqua, continue east on Route 394 to Route 17/86. Use Jamestown exit 12, following Route 60 south. In Jamestown, turn left on Buffalo Street, left at Falconer Street, and left on Curtis Street. At 311 Curtis Street you’ll find the Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History. Enjoy wildlife art and photography exhibitions or view the collection of the 20th century’s great naturalist and ornithologist, Dr. Roger Tory Peterson.

From Jamestown, return to Route 17/86 and go east to Salamanca. At Salamanca, head north on Route 219 through a landscape of lovely rolling hills and farms to the charming village of Ellicottville and its multi-block historic district.

Leaving Ellicottville, head east on Route 242. Turn left on Route 16 and head north to the lovely village of East Aurora, home to the National Landmark Roycroft Inn and the Roycroft Shops. The Roycroft Arts and Crafts Community was founded by writer-philosopher Elbert Hubbard in 1895 as a self-contained community which supported hundreds of craftspeople. You’ll also find Vidler’s 5 and 10, an old-fashioned five and dime, an ice cream shop, a toy store and much more along charming Main Street.