This European looking setting was actually photographed in Buffalo New York, in 1901 when they hosted the Pan-American Exposition. This building was called the Temple of Music, best remembered as the place where President McKinley was assassinated, while he was attending the exposition. Like all but one other building at the exposition, this was torn down afterwards to make room for a housing development. There are several photographs of this building at night, brightly lit by electric light-bulbs powered from a Tesla generator 25 miles away at Niagara Falls.

This image was taken by photographer Charles Dudley Arnold, who was born in Canada in 1844, and emigrated to the United States in 1862. He settled in Buffalo New York where we find him listed in the 1870 census as a librarian. In 1880 he is still in Buffalo, listed as a traveling agent. Apparently his travels took him to New York City, where he took up the practice of photography. In 1888 and 1889 he is listed as a photographer in the Brooklyn city directories. By 1900 he was back in Buffalo, this time listed as a photographer. The last mention we find of him is in the 1920 census, where he is still listed as a photographer at the age of 76.