Buffalo State Hospital, Buffalo, New York (1873)

Artist/Designer: Buffalo NY Architects H. H. Richardson Olmsted & Vaux

Project Location: Buffalo, United States

Figure 1 ( Photographer: Rusty Tagliareni, Christina Mathews )

Figure 2: Attic ( Photographer: Jaime Tirado )

Figure 3: Clothes Storage ( Photographer: Robert Kirkbride )

Figure 4: Barber Shop ( Photographer: Robert Kirkbride )

Figure 5: Yellow + Peach ( Photographer: Robert Kirkbride )

Figure 6: Yellow Parlor Palimpsest ( Photographer: Robert Kirkbride )

Figure 7: corr.128 ( Photographer: Robert Kirkbride )

Figure 8: Towers+Treatise ( Photographer: Robert Kirkbride )

Figure 9 ( Photographer: Robert Kirkbride )

Figure 10 ( Photographer: Robert Kirkbride )

Figure 11 ( Photographer: Tagliareni )

Figure 12 ( Photographer: Robert Kirkbride )

Figure 13 ( Photographer: Robert Kirkbride )

Style/Period(s):
Richardsonian Romanesque

Primary Material(s):
Stone, Brick, Plaster, Wood

Function(s):
Health Facility

Related Website(s):

Richardson_Olmsted_Complex | Accessed : May 23, 2025

Brief History of Mental Health

https://richardson-olmsted.com/

Significant Date(s):
1873

Additional Information:
Architects: Henry Hobson Richardson, Calvert Vaux, Olmsted, Vaux & Co.

Publications/Texts in Print:

Kirkbride, Robert. 2024, December 10. “Phantoms of the Kirkbride Hospitals.” Places Journal. Eds. N. Levinson, F. Richard, J. Wallaert

Kirkbride, Robert. 2025, July 1. “Scent Surveys, Decay and Transformation in the Kirkbride Plan Hospitals of North America.” Chapter 8 in New Sensory Approaches to the Past: Applied Methods in Sensory Heritage and Archaeology. Eds. P. Jordan and S. Mura. London, England: UCL Press

Building Address: 400 Forest Ave, Buffalo, New York 14213

Significant Dates: Opened 1873, Adapted 2018

Preservation Status: National Historic Landmark, National Register of Historic Places

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