For over fifty years, the Hellenic Orthodox Church of the Annunication has occupied one of the principal church buildings on Delaware Avenue. Designed in 1904 by Boston architect George F. Newton, the church, which stands at the southwest corner with Utica Street, was originally home to North Presbyterian Church. After worshipping there for forty-six years, the members of the congregation decided, in 1952, to sell their superb structure to the Orthodox congregation. Tragically, in the spring of 2000, a fire struck the Delaware Avenue building, severly damaging the beautiful interior. Happily, the far-flung congregation quickly began to rebuild. On December 14, 2002, the restored church, which has recently been listed on the National Register of Historic Places, with a ceremony of surpassing beauty, was once again dedicated to religious services.

To read more of Francis R. Kowsky's story, see page 44 of the Spring 2003 Heritage Magazine. Subscribe now!

As a former resident of Buffalo's East Side Broadway-Fillmore area, I belong to a unique generation. What makes my generation unique is a sense of permanence. Ironically this sense of permanence was appreciated only by the realization of its loss.

Born in 1938, I lived on Guildford Street in the same house for twenty years. Guilford was located four blocks west of the Broadway-Fillmore intersection, a Polish-German neighborhood. Looking toward Broadway from my front sidewalk I could see Pempsell Bros. Garage on the left corner, Shell's Bar and Grill on the right corner, and Zawadski's Butcher Store directly across Broadway Street....

I am going to go back into time to recapture the flavor of the East Side from the post WWII era to the late fifties in the hope that fellow East Side residents who remembers these years can say to their children, "Yes, that was what it was like."

To read the rest of Jerome Szaras's story, see page 50 in the Spring 2003 issue. Subscribe now!

Edgar Tafel is a phenomenon of nature. The internationally acclaimed architect was among the first of Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin apprentices. Five years ago Tafel, at 85 years of age, enthralled a packed house in the Albright-Knox auditorium with his vivid memories of time spent with Wright. Of his many talents and accomplishments none is more important than Edgar's natural talent for telling a story. He has repeatedly displayed an uncanny ability to put his audience in the room with himself and Frank Lloyd Wright.

To read more of John H. Conlin's portrait of Tafel, see page 59 of the Spring 2003 Heritage Magazine. Subscribe now!