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New Showcase for the Filling Station™
 Plans have been developed to build the Filling Station within the walls of the new 60,000 square foot Museum expansion. The station structure, with it’s 45’ high copper totems and expansive copper roof will now be protected from exposure to wind, rain and snow and will be able to be seen in comfort year round. Mezzanine levels will surround the indoor station so visitors will be able to look down and over the copper roof and red and white concrete paving.
In 1927, Frank Lloyd Wright designed the station for the corner of Michigan and Cherry. It was never built. The Buffalo Transportation Museum purchased the rights to build the station from the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation in the year 2002. Major funding is now in place and construction is expected to begin next spring. Work to improve the facade of the original Museum building will be started first. The Museum will have a new arched entrance, complimentary brickwork and railings imitating the Pierce Arrow factory on Elmwood and Great Arrow.
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Meet Patrick Mahoney, Supporter and
Frank Lloyd Wright Historian
Meet Patrick J. Mahoney, a licensed architect and associate in the Amherst, NY-based firm of Lauer-Manguso & Associates. He holds a Master of Architecture degree from the State University at Buffalo. His professional work is extensive in office, medical, and retail buildings.
He was "compelled to become an architect" when in 1979 he experienced Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater. His inability to capture the feeling of Fallingwater in two dimensional media led to a goal of experiencing all of Mr. Wright's extant works on a first hand basis. Mr. Mahoney has achieved 95% of this goal at this point in time. These visits enabled Mr. Mahoney to meet many original clients of Frank Lloyd Wright.
In 1997 , Mr. Mahoney was a founding member of the Graycliff Conservancy. The Conservancy was established with the intention of acquiring the circa 1926 estate and returning it to its 1930 appearance, while using it for educational purposes. The Conservancy now owns the Isabelle R. Martin Estate, Graycliff, in Evans , N.Y., 14 miles Southwest of Buffalo, N.Y. He is also the Vice-President of the Conservancy and Chairman of the design committee that oversees the restoration of the estate. Over the past five years he has directed both professional and volunteer forces in the removal of non original alterations to the estate. He served as Project Architect for the recently completed on-site visitor center project.
He has extensively photographed the estate as well as many extant Frank Lloyd Wright designed structures. He published an article entitled "Unbuilt Wright" in the Spring 1999 issue of Western New York Heritage Magazine documenting the extensive work of Frank Lloyd Wright designed but not built.
In the early 1980s, Mr. Mahoney began to collect historic postcards of Western New York. Since that time the collection has grown to include several other specialty areas including naval architecture, buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright, buildings by Louis Sullivan, and buildings by H. H. Richardson.
Mr. Mahoney's recent architectural work includes the renovated Village Shopping Center in East Aurora, N.Y., a design based upon a structure of Frank Lloyd Wright's demolished in 1929.
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