BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Campaign for Greater Buffalo History has offered to buy an endangered landmark owned by the City of Buffalo.
After reading a recent report on endangered landmarks from the Buffalo News, the Campaign offered to buy the Meidenbauer House at 204 High Street. The house is an unusual conjoinment of two houses build by a family of maltsters back in 1870.
"The recent publicity regarding endangered landmarks, beginning with the Great Northern grain elevator, is especially relevant to the Meidenbauer House as a publicly owned building," Campaign President Paul McDonnell said. "We can't have a landmark owned by the public continue to deteriorate. The public support for saving this building was demonstrated by the many citizens who showed up for the public hearings for the High Street Historic District."
The Campaign is offering a symbolic $1 for the property. The goal is to do a full restoration of the house.
In his letter to the mayor, Campaign Executive director Tim Tielman said that "the city has not been able to maintain the building to prevent deterioration. We would like to have the building restored according to the Secretary of the Interior’s Guidelines for Rehabilitation and returned to the tax rolls for the first time in 16 years and relieve the city of this burden."
