Darwin D. Martin is well known in the Western New York area and is recognized thorughout the world for having commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to design his Buffalo home, familiarly known as the Martin House. Martin's diaries and correspondence illuminate much about his life. Isabelle Reidpath Martin, his wife, also commissioned a home from Frank Lloyd Wright, but her name is not as well known, perhaps in part because her home is popularly known as Graycliff, rather than the Isabelle R. Martin House. Isabelle left no diary, and very little of her correspondence has been found. Yet her few letters and the words of others, especially her husband's, provide an intriguing portrait.

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Two Thousand Five marks the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the French and Indian War in New York State. Fought 20 years before the American Revolution, the French and Indian War was the last in a series of colonial wars between Britain and France. The conflict pitted France and her settlements in Canada, Illinois and Louisiana against Britain and her colonies along the Atlantic seaboard. Native Americans fought on both sides and often determined the success or failure of a military campaign...

...By the time the French and Indian War broke out, France was a firmly entrenched tenant on the banks of the Niagara River...

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