Lafayette Square Perspectives View 3 - Southeast Corner from Main & Court Streets.

c. 1908 (city population 423,715)
Buildings from right: Brisbane (1895), Hotel Lafayette (center, white/pink, 1904), Buffalo Public Library (dark red, left center, 1884)

August 2002 (population 292,648) Noon
Brisbane Building and Lafayette Hotel remain; the library - not visible here- was replaced with the new Erie County Public Library in 1963.
The trees in the original image above were removed decades ago (see 1929 photo) and were replanted in the last 10 years.

Link to Ben Maryniak's history of Soldiers & Sailors Monument

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