First off I wonder why my anti-virus software gives me a warning about "We blocked a risky connections" when going to the Buffalo News website. IP 198.134.116.50. Third time this week this came up


So who remembers this.

Why can't the builder be sued including the people who signed off on this. Sue them for the cost to make the building usable?


West Seneca wants to save the Burchfield Nature & Art Center — but at what cost?


The first sign something was amiss at the Charles E. Burchfield Nature & Art Center building in West Seneca came when the windows were difficult to open.
Then a lock snapped off a window, and in January 2017, town officials knew something was seriously wrong. The gallery section, with its vaulted ceilings, was slowly collapsing as wooden studs supporting the walls and roof rotted from the bottom.


https://buffalonews.com/2019/03/18/w...9-bk4MJJt-CgRQ



You simply can't make this crap up.

There is another unusual design element in the building: Two furnaces are located in the attic space on two sides of the building, accessible by narrow, pull-down stairways. There is no way to remove them or install new ones without breaking through the roof or ceiling areas. Since the furnaces are nearly 20 years old, there is the thought that new boiler rooms should be constructed on the first floor with new furnaces.





The center is a great place to display the Burchfield legacy, Burchfield volunteer Paula Minklei said.


"No other community has something like this. To get it restored and get it back in use would be absolutely wonderful," she said.
This isn't tax payer funded I hope. I bet there are people in West Seneca who never heard of Burchfield and really don't care about their legacy.

The Friends group held nine or 10 art exhibits a year, sponsored speakers and offered classes in painting and sketching. Various groups and clubs, from garden clubs to quilters, used the building for meetings and events as well.
Couldn't they have had the exhibits at the West Seneca Senior Center?

West Seneca Senior Center


"There was just always something going on in that building," Minklei said. "People in the community could walk in at any time."
But how many people in the community actually did walk in at any time not counting the people doing the events? Now that the building has been closed where have those events been moved to?