Kleinhans Music Hall will turn 85 in October. It doesn’t look a day over 40.
Sure, it’s had some work done – most recently a $15-million face-lift – but its classic bone structure remains timeless. Kleinhans is one of the great public spaces we have in Buffalo.
Kleinhans Music Hall resembles the body of a string instrument. It is known for its combination of graceful structural beauty and extraordinary acoustics. Buffalo News file photo
Put it in our civic timeline just after War Memorial Stadium, which opened in 1937. Construction on Kleinhans began a year later – and no one would ever call it a Rockpile.
Today is the birthday of both Eliel and Eero Saarinen, the father-and-son architects from Finland who designed the music hall. (Eliel was born on this date in 1873, Eero in 1910.) That makes today a good time to celebrate them and, of course, their greatest collaboration.