Lafayette High School
A high school on Lafayette Ave, in the middle of things: 42 places within a five-minute walk. One of 479 schools & childcare in Buffalo.















On the National Register since 1980

Lafayette High School
Lafayette High School was added to the National Register of Historic Places on Dec 3, 1980. It is significant for its architecture at the local level. Its architecture is described as Beaux Arts.
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. Johnson. Although classes began off-site during construction of the school, the building was completed and graduated its first class in 1903. …
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42 places within a five-minute walk of Lafayette High School.
370 Lafayette Ave
The nearest neighbor is Putnam Street Community Garden, 2 min walk away.
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Some place details from Overture Maps (CDLA-Permissive-2.0). Changes go live once a second neighbor confirms them. Building history: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places.