The Fargo House

This handsome old Victorian in Prospect Hill is part private residence, part archaeological dig and part art gallery: award-winning artist, architect, author and UB professor Dennis Maher bought it in 2009 when it was on the city's demolition list and has been living in and renovating it ever since, a process that has yielded a treasure trove of salvaged structural and decorative elements that he assembles — along with found items from thrift stores, flea markets, and other sources — into imaginative collages displayed in the gallery space on the house's first floor. This ongoing project has earned him praise from the '''New York Foundation for the Arts''' and in the pages of the ''New York Times'', among others. Aside from Maher's own work, the Fargo House also occasionally hosts exhibitions by other artists from the local area.