Bandstands
There were five bandstands on the grounds of the Pan-American Exposition. These included the Plaza bandstand, north of the Electric Tower, the East and West bandstands in the Esplanade near the Temple of Music, the Casino bandstand on the shore of the lake close to where the Casino building stands today, and another bandstand on the lake near what is now the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. The heavy schedule of band performances kept these bandstands in almost constant use throughout the Exposition. Return to the introduction page to see a map of the bandstand locations.
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| The bandstands at the Pan-American were designed by J.M. Lyall of New York. He, like many of the young, fledgling architects employed at the Exposition, was assigned the responsibility of designing minor constructions. A recent graduate of the Ecole de Beaux-Arts, Lyall and his "untried" colleagues hoped that their work at the Exposition would gain them notice. Lyall's bandstands were "circular pavilions roofed over in shell-like fashion and reminiscent of the fantastic effects achieved in the larger structures built at the the Paris Exposition in 1900. Completely in keeping with the festival nature of the Pan-American, the unassuming bandstands expressed more immediately the gaiety of a temporary city than the more developed, larger buildings."1 |
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Reference
1. Joann Marie Thompson.
The Art and Architecture of the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New
York, 1901. Unpublished dissertation, Rutgers University, The State
University of New Jersey, 1980. pp. 75-76.
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