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Plans for Visitor Center Move Ahead

Plans for a visitor center and museum at Old Fort Niagara got one step closer to reality during September when the Old Fort Niagara Association’s Development and Museum Committees and fort staff met with project architects Foit-Albert and Associates and representatives from the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation to finalize conceptual plans for the center.

Jim Gold, Director of the Bureau of Historic Sites, and Chris Flagg, Senior Historic Sites Restoration Co-ordinator, traveled to Albany to review the latest concepts from Foit-Albert Associates. The challenge facing the planning team is to design a modern state-of-the-art visitor center and museum while retaining distinguishing original characteristics of the historic building that will house the facility. This structure, known as Building #102, is a former United States Army warehouse located just north of the fort’s public parking area.

After reviewing several alternate designs, the group decided upon a combination of features that it felt would serve the needs of the fort and its visitors well into the 21st Century. The new facility will provide visitor amenities such as food service, museum shop, large modern restrooms and an efficient ticket sales area. The Visitor Center will also feature a theater with an orientation video and ample space for meetings, lectures and special programs.

Just west of the theater, a series of exhibition galleries will display the original flag that flew over the fort during the War of 1812 and provide orientation and changing exhibit space. Here rotating exhibits will showcase the fort’s excellent collections as well as borrowed materials.

After viewing these exhibits, visitors will leave the Center for their tour of the fort. Returning to the center, visitors will pass through an exit gallery which will interpret the history of New Fort Niagara.

The project will also involve landscaping that will improve the aesthetics of the approach to the fort, enhance the view of the Niagara River and provide more efficient and safer traffic patterns at the site.

A second phase of the project will provide for the addition of a new wing to the north side of the existing building. This addition will give the fort additional exhibition space and establish an elevated observation platform from which a panoramic view of the fort will be available.

The project now moves into its schematic design phase. It is hoped that completed construction drawings will be available early next spring.

Collections Function: To establish and maintain collections of objects, books, documents and illustrations relating to the history of the site of Old Fort Niagara and associated historic sites in the Niagara region.

UB Department of Anthropology Archaeological Field School at Old Fort Niagara

From May 21 to June 29, students from the University at Buffalo will participate in an archaeological field school at Old Fort Niagara under the direction of Dr. Elizabeth Peña (Visiting Assistant Professor, UB Department of Anthropology), with the assistance of Bill McFarlane (Graduate Student, UB Department of Anthropology). Continuing with a project initiated by Doc Knight, former Director of Archaeology at OFN, the students will excavate at the site of the 1768 British guardhouses. With one guardhouse assigned to officers and the other to enlisted men, research questions focus on how these groups of soldiers lived in 18th-century Fort Niagara. In addition to participating in excavation, students will also gain experience in mapping, documentation, artifact processing, and other archaeological methods and techniques. The field school is sponsored by the UB Department of Anthropology and Old Fort Niagara.

Along with the archaeological field school at Old Fort Niagara, there will be an on-line project conducted by Sandra Boero-Imwinkelried (Graduate Student, UB Department of Classics). This project is supported by a UB Faculty Educational Technology Grant and the Department of Anthropology.