Buffalo Central Terminal

This month marks the 5th anniversary of the beginning of the sealing of the Central Terminal. This Windows Live Local aerial shot is from that time frame.

Now:

An estimated crowd of nearly 80 “Friends of the Buffalo Central Terminal” members participated in the last event of the 2007 season, a private tour of the concourse and areas within the office tower. That event officially closed out our 5th season of public events.

In every measure, whether it be in attendance, revenue or feedback, this has been our most successful season to date. We welcomed visitors numbering more than 12,000 this year, many returning from years prior and commenting on the visible progress made on the project.

We are all non-paid volunteers and not professional event planners, so to pull off an aggressive and diverse schedule of events like we do not only takes a lot of time and effort but also nerves of steel. Each year, we learn new and better ways to bring these events to you and each year, we get bigger and bigger.

So, thank you Western New York, Southern Ontario and all of our out of towners for helping us keep this great building in the public eye. Without your interest and support, the project could not continue. It is you who give the Central Terminal a renewed purpose and a brighter future and I’m happy to have met and talked with many thousands of you over the past four years.

We’ll be back again next year, bigger and better than ever!

There is always talk about what happened to the buffalo at Central Terminal. As many know, the very first buffalo was a stuffed buffalo owned by the Buffalo Science Museum and used as an advertisement.

When they took it back, it was replaced with a plaster buffalo painted to look bronze - and this is the one most people remember. During the 90s it was knocked over by a pick up truck and shattered.

Years later the University at Buffalo was looking for a buffalo to have on campus and tracked down the original molds which were used in the creation of the plaster Central Terminal buffalo. They recast him in bronze and he now sits in front of the Arts building on the North Campus.

Now we need your help. Someone attended Doors Open Niagara in October and said that UB has the molds, that he walks by them ever day. We are looking for more details on the molds, so if you are anyone you know works at UB and knows who to talk to about looking at the molds please contact us at webmaster@buffalocentralterminal.org