Museum Complex
The museum entrance is situated on East 5th Street between State and French Streets. The 2010 wing connects five historic buildings into a single complex:
- The Old Custom House, a Greek Revival building constructed in 1837-39 of Vermont marble
- The Cashiers House, a Greek Revival townhouse also completed in 1839
- The Bonnell Block, a Greek Revival commercial building built in 1840 that houses the Erie County Historical Society
- The Erie Art Museum's Holstein Gallery and Frame Shop, also housed in the Bonnell Block building
- The Old Pumper House, the oldest surviving fire house in the city, originally built as a marble works in 1850
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