Lafayette High School
Lafayette High School was a public high school in Buffalo, New York. It was the oldest public school in Buffalo that remained in its original building, a stone, brick and terra-cotta structure in the French Renaissance Revival style by architects August Esenwein and James A.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Richardson Olmsted Complex and Burchfield Penney Art Center.
Richardson Olmsted Complex
Historic site
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The Richardson Olmsted Campus in Buffalo, New York, United States, was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1986. The site was designed by the American architect Henry Hobson Richardson in concert with the famed landscape team of Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in the late 1800s, incorporating a system of treatment for people with mental illness developed by Dr. Richardson Olmsted Complex is situated 3,400 feet north of Lafayette High School.
Burchfield Penney Art Center
Art gallery
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The Burchfield Penney Art Center, or just the Burchfield Penney, is an arts and educational institution part of Buffalo State University, located adjacent to the main campus in Buffalo, New York, United States. Burchfield Penney Art Center is situated 1 mile northeast of Lafayette High School.
Buffalo History Museum
Museum
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The Buffalo History Museum is located at 1 Museum Court in Buffalo, New York. It is located just east of Elmwood Avenue and off of Nottingham Terrace, north of the Scajaquada Expressway, in the northwest corner of Delaware Park. Buffalo History Museum is situated 1 mile northeast of Lafayette High School.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Upper West Side and Elmwood Village.
Elmwood Village
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West Side
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Sure, for now the Elmwood Village is Buffalo's premier neighborhood for fine dining and cute urban boutiques; Allentown is where local artists and bohos congregate, and downtown still takes the cake when it comes to the urban rehabilitation that Western New Yorkers have grown more and more used to.
Lafayette High School
- Type: School
- Description: school in Buffalo, New York
- Categories: high school, school building, and education
- Location: Buffalo, Erie County, Niagara Frontier, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
42.92078° or 42° 55′ 15″ northLongitude
-78.88471° or 78° 53′ 5″ westElevation
630 feet (192 metres)Open location code
87J3W4C8+84OpenStreetMap ID
way 514020850OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=school
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From French to Swedish—“Lafayette High School” goes by many names.
- French: “Lafayette High School”
- Swedish: “Lafayette High School”
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