Buffalo Memorial Auditorium

About Buffalo Memorial Auditorium

Buffalo Memorial Auditorium was an NBA and NHL arena in Buffalo, New York. It opened in 1940 and closed in 2009. It was designed by Green & Wicks. Its last recorded capacity was 16,433. Tenants included Buffalo Braves (NBA, 1971–1978) and Buffalo Sabres (NHL, 1971–1996). On our ranked lists it ranks 228th shortest-lived of 272 stadiums and arenas with known opening and closing years.

Appears in

• 228th shortest-lived of 272 stadiums and arenas with known opening and closing years
• 38th shortest-lived of 46 basketball arenas with known opening and closing years
• 84th longest single tenancy (7 years) of the 109 longest on record in basketball arenas
• 30th shortest-lived of 40 hockey arenas with known opening and closing years
• 34th longest single tenancy (25 years) of the 100 longest on record in hockey arenas
• 35th shortest-lived of 43 NBA arenas with known opening and closing years
• 67th longest single tenancy (7 years) of the 104 longest on record in NBA arenas
• 25th shortest-lived of 34 NHL arenas with known opening and closing years

Venue Information

Location derived from the venue's coordinates using data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Elevation of the venue's coordinates from USGS and NASA SRTM elevation data, via Open Topo Data.

Architect and operator credits from Wikidata.

Capacity by layout

Seating capacity depends on how the building is laid out for each event. Figures are the best sourced claim per layout.

The site today

• The site is now part of Canalside; its seasonal outdoor rink, The Ice at Canalside, sits where the Aud stood.

From OpenStreetMap data near the venue's recorded coordinates, © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Maps show what is there now, not the old footprint.

Teams

Records are each team's full-season results while it was based here, home and away games alike, from final scores. They are not records of games played at this venue.

Frequently Asked Questions

Sources

Where the facts on this page were read from. How VenueStats compiles them.

• Open Topo Data (Public domain): Elevation.
• OpenStreetMap (ODbL): What stands on the site today.
• OpenStreetMap Nominatim (ODbL): Location.
• VenueStats compilation: Opening and closing years, name history and teams (compiled by VenueStats from Sports Reference and Wikipedia).
• Wikidata (CC0): Coordinates (Wikidata places the building within 6 m of this point), Architect and operator.
• Wikimedia Commons (CC BY): Photograph.
• Wikipedia (CC BY-SA): Capacity, basketball layout, Capacity, hockey layout.