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Times Beach Cottages

This collection details the houses that used to line Times Beach, also known as "The Beach" and "The Seawall Strip" across the Buffalo River opposite Canalside on the Outer Harbor.

It is easy to forget, in a space now used for a highway bridge, dry storage marinas, sailing schools, a Coast Guard station, and a nature preserve, that much of Times Beach was historically a neighborhood with dozens of cottages, taverns, seafood restaurants, and the original location of the Bison City Rod and Gun Club. Most of this neighborhood, built on a city-owned seawall, was razed in a slum clearance campaign in 1917. Homes dating back to 1844 were leveled, and hundreds of longtime residents—known as the “Beachers,” many making a living as fishers, grain scoopers, and tavern keepers—were forcibly evicted. Here, near the corner of Fuhrmann Boulevard and South Michigan Avenue, Porterfield records the last vestige of this once complex waterfront neighborhood. The Skyway opened to traffic on October 19, 1955—its 60th birthday will be on Monday—and the Beach neighborhood was forgotten. If history will be any factor in future planning along Fuhrmann Bouelvard, such cottages and restaurants could be built again—with sufficient distance from Times Beach Nature Preserve—along the Buffalo River and City Ship Canal, in the shadow of the Skyway piers. –The Public, 10/13/2015
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