East Aurora, New York
For those who live in East Aurora New York, just 7 miles East of Orchard Park, the belief is that there is no finer place to raise a family. People are friendly, there is a small town look and feel here, and there is always someone ready to lend a helping hand.
Back in 1995, East Aurora became the first village to successfully fight the proposal for a Wal-Mart on Olean Road. In 1999, WM again tried to come to town but this time near the Post Office on Quaker Road. The town subsequently has enacted a ban on new buildings larger than 55,000 sq. ft. Very few communities have had the fortitude to maintain the organized resistance as East Aurora. This has led to of course to increase values on residential properties as people all over the country search for a village that still has mom and pop stores lining Main Street. They even have a genuine world famous 5 and dime store: Vidler’s. It is a must see for any visitor to WNY. www.east-aurora.ny.us.
| Very few towns or villages have such a harmonious mix on the social economic ladder. Perhaps this is why East Aurora is the most desirable place to live based on the housing market right now. It’s rich history mostly in part due to just one of its most famous citizens, Elbert Green Hubbard. This writer, lecturer, philosopher, epigrammatist, innkeeper and encourager of arts and crafts of every sort, realized his dreams by fashioning the American counterpart of William Morris' English crafts complex in East Aurora New York. |
| The Roycroft Campus, a complex consisting of 14 buildings (9 public) housed the artisans of yesteryear who made their mark on the Arts & Crafts Movement in America. Elbert Hubbard and his wife Alice died before their time in the sinking of the S.S. Lusitania in May 1915.. |
After Hubbard's death, the Roycroft thrived as a single entity under the guidance of Elbert Hubbard II. The stock market crash of 1929 and the depression that followed caused the closing of the original institute in 1938. The Roycroft Renaissance has been renewed in East Aurora and throughout the country, through the efforts of many talented artists and committed historians. The Roycrofters-At-Large-Association was formed in 1976 to keep alive the history and philosophy of the movement and to encourage preservation and promote new crafts and craftsmen. The fourteen building Roycroft Campus has been a National Historic Landmark since 1986.
The Roycroft Inn reopened in 1995 after a multi-million dollar restoration by the Margaret L. Wendt Foundation. Today the Roycroft Campus still attracts many visitors annually who visit The Roycroft Inn and Shops to relive a piece of Arts & Crafts history
We mentioned one famous former citizen. The other one was Milliard T. Fillmore, 14th President of the United States whose home still stands at 24 shearer Avenue and is the second site in the village listed on the National Historic Register. The third one is a trivia question right on the corner of Center and Main Streets; the Tiffany stained glass windows in Baker Memorial Church. Most East Aurorans just take this work of art for granted too.
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