The Temple of Music was designed by architects August Esenwein and James A. Johnson for the Pan-American Exhibition, to serve as a concert hall and ceremonial stage.The organ was built for St. Louis Roman Catholic Church in Buffalo, but at the end of the exposition, it was found to be physically too big to be installed there.Buffalo businessman J. N Adams bought it and had it installed in the city music hall, which stood on the corner of Virginia St. & Elmwood Avenue.Demolished when replaced by Kleinhan's Music Hall, the organ was put in storage, deteriorated, and was finally sold for scrap.The Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society placed a stone and marker on a traffic island dividing Fordham Drive, near that parkway, to mark the area where the Temple of Music was located.
Temple of Music at night, photograph, 1901.
"Temple of Music, Buffalo, N.Y. (Where Pres.
McKinley
was shot)," historical postcard.
