We are fortunate architecturally to have all the FLW designed buildings in our area that we do. There is the Darwin Martin House Complex on Jewett Parkway, Graycliff, of course, the Heath House at 76 Soldiers Place, the Davidson House at 57 Tillinghast, and the former Larkin Building, now represented by a small section of wall, but also part of the connection for Larkinville on Seneca St..
Beyond that, we have a number of FLW designs that were not originally built which were constructed in Buffalo in recent years. There is the Blue Sky Mausoleum in Forest Lawn Cemetery, originally designed at the request of Darwin Martin but not built until 2004. No Martins are interred there. Then there is the Fontana Boat House originally designed by FLW for the University of Wisconsin in 1905 as a rowing boat house, the only one he ever designed but again not built. In 2000 local rowers started a campaign to purchase the plans and have it built on the river in Buffalo. In 2007 it opened and is home to Buffalo's own prestigious West Side Rowing Club.
Then there is the Gas Station designed by Wright in 1927, at the same time he was working on Graycliff. It was planned to be built in Buffalo on the corner Of Michigan and Cherry, but never was. In 2002 the Pierce Arrow Museum on Seneca Street undertook an effort to build it totally inside the warehouse style housing of their museum. Progress on it has been slow and it is not yet complete, but there is a great set of pictures of the building on their site which is reachable via the link below. Please check them out.
http://www.pierce-arrow.com/frank-lloyd-wright-filling-station
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