"The Country Club of Buffalo The First 125 Years 1889-2014" GALLUZZO, John
$250
GALLUZZO, John
By Austin M. Fox
With drawings by Charles Dana Gibson and Urquhart Wilcox
[98] pp.
The Country Club of Buffalo
2014
11 1/4" x 8 3/4"
w/ addendum booklet laid-in
Expanded Reprint Edition with Addendum "The Country Club of Buffalo 1989-2014
History
On the evening of February 4th, 1889 the first meeting founding the Country Club of Buffalo was held at The Buffalo Club. E.B. Green, a prominent Buffalo architect, was in attendance and had been chosen to design the first clubhouse located on Elmwood Avenue and Nottingham Terrace in Buffalo, New York. The Club House was ready for use in August of 1889 and was constructed on open farmland in a low-slung Shingle Style.
The Exposition
The Club vacated their City land in 1899 to make way for the Pan American Exposition of 1901. The clubhouse became the “Women's Building” for that Exposition. As part of this move, property was acquired along Main Street where the city line met the Town of Amherst and a clubhouse and golf course were completed in 1902. Walter Travis upgraded the course in 1910 to attract a major tournament and the Men’s U. S. Open Championship was played there in 1912.