“Buffalo…..who knew” that Robert T. Coles, a Buffalo-born and MIT-educated architect, launched the first African American-owned architecture firm in New York State and in the Northeast? And that his house, located on Humboldt Parkway, is poised to become Buffalo’s next house museum and cultural site?  Coles was the first African American to win the Rotch Traveling Scholarship awarded by the Boston Society of Architects,[1] the first African American Chancellor of the American Institute of Architects (AIA),[2] the first AIA Vice-President for Minority Affairs, and [...]