The Allentown Association, in cooperation with the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum and Heart of the City Neighborhoods, Inc., continues its successful seminar series focused on architectural history and historic preservation. "The series began in February 2007 in response to the most popular queries posed to the Association and in keeping with the Association’s 2007 objective to focus on historic preservation, education and outreach," says Christopher N. Brown, president of the Association. The Allentown Association has partnered with area experts eager to share their knowledge and experience. Each presentation is held on a Thursday evening, beginning at 6:30 pm and will end by 7:45 pm. Bringing people together to discuss a particular topic will be more than just a one-way exchange of information. The Association hopes that people interested in the topic being presented will ask questions and the event will give attendees an opportunity to come together and network among themselves.

The presentations will be free to the public. If you have any questions, please call the Allentown Association at 881-1024 or Email, allentown@bfn.org.

• 5/10/07 - Salvaging/Using salvaged materials in your historic home. Karpeles Porter Hall, 453 Porter Ave. Michael Gainer will give an overview of Buffalo ReUse, a new salvaging not-for-profit and John Allen, an Allentown resident, engineer and historic renovator will discuss utilizing salvaged materials in your historic home.
• 5/24/07 - NYS & Federal & Local historic tax credits, assessment and STAR programs. Karpeles Porter Hall, 453 Porter Ave. Martin Kennedy from the City of Buffalo’s Tax and Assessment Department will give an overview of city tax exemptions available for City of Buffalo historic properties and an overview of state and federal tax credits for historic properties will be given.
• 6/7/07 - Buffalo’s oldest house: The Coit House. Karpeles North Hall, 220 North Street. An informative slide show of the history of the Coit House, Buffalo’s oldest house built soon after Buffalo’s burning during the War of 1812, will be given by Christopher Brown, president of the Allentown Association.
• 6/21/07 - The architecture of E&E Saarinen and Kleinhans Music Hall. Karpeles Porter Hall, 453 Porter Ave. An interesting slide show of the history of Kleinhans Music Hall and the significance of the architecture by Eliel Saarinen and his son Eero will be given by Christopher Brown, Association president, who is also a director of Kleinhans Music Hall.
• 7/5/07 - Allentown’s most famous Victorian-era architect: Richard A. Waite. Karpeles North Hall 220 North Street. Martin Wachadlo, architectural historian and author of Oakland Place: Gracious Living in Buffalo will give a slide show presentation on Buffalo’s most successful Victorian-era architect, Richard A. Waite, who is better known in the present generation to Canadians than he is to Americans. Find out why!