In a time when barrels were essential to shipping goods on the Erie Canal, the E. & B. Holmes Machinery Company transformed the manufacturing industry and helped Buffalo thrive as a port city. 

The story of one local family illustrates how an entire group of people nationwide were impacted by a series of unjust immigration restrictions.

Landscape painter Arthur Kowalski was more than a brilliant artist — he was an arts advocate, musician and businessman who left behind an impressive and lasting legacy. 

In the early 1920s, the city and its mayor, Francis X. Schwab, took a dramatic stand against a resurgent Ku Klux Klan that boasted thousands of local members.

Travel across Chautauqua and Cattaraugus counties, and explore the long history of the Erie Railroad.

After facing possible demolition earlier this year, Buffalo’s oldest synagogue is poised for a restoration, to ensure it remains a beautiful relic of East Side history.

A never-before-published watercolor depicts the Brayley & Pitts Company, the Erie Canal and the New York Central Railroad, among other fascinating details.