Francis R. Kowsky (born 1943) is a notable architectural historian

Architectural History

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 and State University of New York

State University of New York

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 (SUNY) Distinguished Professor of Fine Arts at Buffalo State College

Buffalo State College

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, SUNY, Buffalo, New York

Buffalo, New York

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. He has published on nineteenth century American architects and architecture including Frederick Withers, Calvert Vaux

Calvert Vaux

Calvert Vaux , was an architect and landscape designer. He is best remembered as the co-designer , of New York's Central Park....

, and H. H. Richardson, as well as the architecture and landscape of Buffalo and northwestern New York State. He is also active in historic preservation

Historic preservation

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 and has served on the New York State Board for Historic Preservation, the Board of Directors of the Preservation Coalition of Erie County, New York, and is currently a trustee of the National Association for Olmsted Parks.

Writings

• Kowsky, Francis R., The Architecture of Frederick Clarke Withers and the Progress of the Gothic Revival in America after 1850, Wesleyan University Press, Middletown CT 1980; ISBN 0819550418

• Kowsky, Francis R., Buffalo Architecture: A Guide, MIT Press
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  , Cambridge MA and London 1981; ISBN 026252063X

• Kowsky, Francis R., Country, Park & City: The Architecture and Life of Calvert Vaux, Oxford University Press
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  , New York 1998; ISBN 0195114957

• Kowsky, Francis R., "H.H. Richardson's Project for the Young Men's Association Library in Buffalo," Niagara Frontier 25/2 (1978), pp. 29-35

• Kowsky, Francis R., "The William Dorsheimer House: A Reflection of French Suburban Architecture in the Early Work of H. H. Richardson," Art Bulletin, 62 (March 1980), pp. 321-147

• Kowsky, Francis R., "H. H. Richardson's Ames Gate Lodge and the Romantic Landscape Tradition", in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 50/2 (June 1991), pp. 181-188.

External links

• Buffalo State College