Built in 1824 by James Van Horn, owner of the first grist mill along Eighteen Mile Creek, the Van Horn Mansion was one of the first brick houses in Niagara County and is said to be haunted by Van Horn's wife, Malinda. The estate once consisted of a fruit farm on 344 acres. The first town meeting where the Town of Newfane was formed was held in 1824 in the Van Horn living room.

Preservation Buffalo Niagara is a membership organization with over 1000 individual and family members, plus civic, foundation and corporate supporters. Their mission is to identify, preserve, protect, promote and revitalize historically architecturally significant sites, structures, neighborhoods, commercial districts and landscapes in western New York. While they are new, their Programs are growing. 

The Eleanor and Wilson Greatbatch Pavilion is a 7,700 sq ft visitor center that provides orientation, event spaces, and a permanent exhibition gallery for the Darwin D. Martin House, Frank Lloyd Wright’s residential compound in Buffalo, New York, built in 1906.

The Richardson Olmsted Complex Draft Generic Environmental Impact Statement (DGEIS) and General Project Plan (GPP) are complete, and were accepted as such by the lead agency, Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC) on December 16, 2010.