Reimagining A Buffalo Landmark

This WNED PBS original production shares the 150-year history and massive rehabilitation effort of a national landmark in Buffalo, NY designed by architect H.H. Richardson, with landscape by Frederick Law Olmsted. Originally built as the Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane, the buildings and grounds are undergoing rehabilitation efforts to transform the campus into a community asset for the future.
This WNED PBS production premiered in April 2019.
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Much has been preserved, but much was also destroyed. Wright's Larkin Soap Company building was torn down in the 1950s, while Central Terminal was allowed to become a ruin. One of Olmstead's parkways was paved over for a sunken freeway. These historical preservation disasters were among the city's chronic political dysfunction.

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When I was growing up in Buffalo in the 1950s and 60s, if someone was acting a little weird, they would be told "we're going to send you to Forest Avenue," meaning the asylum in the complex discussed in the video.

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Too many repetitive narrations.