Buffalo & Erie County Public Library

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The current building and a plaque commemorating the original Erie County courthouse built on the same parcel The current building and a plaque commemorating the original Erie County courthouse built on the same parcel
The current building and a plaque commemorating the original Erie County courthouse built on the same parcel

The Buffalo & Erie County Public Library is on Lafayette Square, Buffalo, New York. The current library built in the 1960s replaced the original Cyrus Eidlitz Buffalo Public Library Building dedicated on February1887.[1] Before the Public Library was built, the original Erie County, New York courthouse was on this parcel from 1816-1876.[1][2]

Original Erie County Court House viewed from from Court-House Park (now Lafayette Square, 1860s)
Original Erie County Court House viewed from from Court-House Park (now Lafayette Square, 1860s)

It was founded in the 19th Century by a group of prominent Buffalo citizens including Samuel Clemens, who was then-editor of the newspaper in Buffalo.

The library includes the original, hand-written manuscript of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, which Twain donated to the library in 1885.

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  1. ^ a b 1887 Buffalo Public Library. Chuck LaChiusa. Retrieved on 2008-03-07.
  2. ^ Court House. History of Buffalo. Chuck LaChiusa.

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