Buffalo School of Culinary Arts & Hospitality Management
75 W. Huron St.
Lansing & Beierl, 1892-1894
Fully Handicap/Stroller Accessible
Restrooms Available
Last Admittance: 3:30pm 

Building Description: 

History – Buffalo School of Culinary Arts and Hospitality Management

C. W. Miller Livery Stable
• Besides stabling (250) horses, stored carts, carriages and sleighs

• Erected: 1892-1894

• Architect: Lansing & Beierl (also known for: Connecticut Street Armory, Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church)

• Style: Richardsonian Romanesque with rounded windows (Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane/Richardson Olmsted Campus)

• Status: Local, National Register of Historic Places listings

• There are 1,000 wooden pilings with a pumping system to remove the constant flow of water from an underground spring

• Outer brick walls are not load bearing except for their own weight. Wood floors are suspended from triangular steel trusses in the attic. Note trusses on every floor inside the building.

• By the end of World War I, the Miller Livery Stable was converted to a parking garage for cars and renamed the Huron Street Garage, and later the Hertz Garage.

• Abandoned: Year: 2000

Buffalo School of Culinary Arts
• Emerson School of Hospitality, on West Chippewa St., was so successful that a second school was created to serve the demand.

• Name of Miller building renovation developers: McGuire Development. Completed 2019. School opened 2020

• Designed for 450 students, the programming includes a full academic high school plus working commercial training kitchens, a full restaurant, retail shop, and full gymnasium addition built over the parking area.

• Note the historic red stable/livery doors in the restaurant raised eating area and in the hall on the 6th floor

• Note the Buffalo Public Schools historic plaques on the first floor of the restaurant

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