Designed by Buffalo architect George Cary (1859–1945), its south portico is meant to evoke the Parthenon in Athens.[5] It has hosted observances of Lincoln's Birthday for over a century and features a bronze statue by sculptor Charles H. Niehaus in 1902 on the museums portico.[6] From 1879 to 1947, the Society published pioneering scholarship on the people, events, and history of the Niagara Frontier.A recreation of Tim Russert's office opened in October 2014 after having been installed at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. On view by appointment in the museum's Resource Center on Forest Avenue is the gun used by Leon F. Czolgosz to shoot President William McKinley at the Exposition's Temple of Music on September 6, 1901.[19] The left, center, and right sections of the pediment atop the museum, designed by Edmond Amateis and includes clothed, semi-nude and nude figures.