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[TOUR] Buffalo’s respect for early American architecture is not only evident in our tendency towards preservation, but also in our willingness to build neglected designs, like the Fontana Boathouse. Designed in 1905 by Frank Lloyd Wright—father of modernist architecture—it was intended for the University of Wisconsin. The design sat idle in Wright’s infamous 1910 Wasmuth Portfolio, until its 2007 construction on the shore of the Black Rock Channel in Buffalo. Why was it built over a century later in Buffalo? Find out why, learn all about Wright’s Prairie-Style design, and enjoy a spectacular view of Lake Erie on Thursday (and each Thursday through the summer) at Explore Buffalo’s Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fontana Boathouse Tour.