Michael R. Weekes, the businessman who is proposing a sports museum on the Buffalo waterfront, announced Tuesday that he intends to build a replica of a 19th century Erie Canal packet boat.
M. Miller, 19th century, Marine School, Oil on canvas, A portrait of the packet ship Roscius built by Brown & Bell NY, Captain Asa Eldridge. Signed & dated (18)97 lower right and ascribed verso.