H. H. Richardson Complex

Buffalo, United States

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The Richardson Olmsted Campus in Buffalo, New York, was designed by Henry Hobson Richardson in concert with the landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in the late 1800s as a hospital and hotel complex built upon the Kirkbride Plan, a systematic approach to mental illness treatment developed by Dr. Thomas Story Kirkbride. Executed in the Richardsonian Romanesque style, the sprawling campus served as the Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane until patient wards closed in 1974. Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1986, the site underwent decades of deterioration before restoration efforts began in earnest following the formation of the Richardson Center Corporation in 2006. Today the campus is being adaptively reused, with the Hotel Richardson now operating within the Towers Building and its adjacent structures, while future development includes the Lipsey Architecture Center Buffalo, a new museum dedicated to the city's architectural heritage.

Architect

Henry Hobson Richardson

Movement

Richardsonian Romanesque

Built: 1870
Type: hospital, hotel
Heritage: National Register of Historic Places listed place, National Historic Landmark
Place: Buffalo, United States

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Location

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