strolling around the roycroft campus

the furniture and book bindery shop built in 1904

After lunch at the Roycroft Inn, we then strolled around the beautiful campus grounds to see some of the many original stone buildings built by Elbert Hubbard's artisans & craftsman that he called the "roycrofters".  A few that we visited are the chapel, print shop, blacksmith and copper shop, furniture and book bindery shop. Take a look the quaint style of architecture...

the original staircase inside the book bindery shop, well worn into the
sagging wood you can see the many footprints of all those gone before.
one can only imagine how many times elbert hubbard himself
must have gone up and down these very stairs.

row of historic buildings behind the blackmith & copper shop

exterior of the blacksmith & copper shop built in 1902, made of local stone
half-timbered and stuccoed in the style of a small english cottage

original stone chimney of the blacksmith & copper shop's fireplace

here is the print shop built in 1901, an L-shaped building with a crenellated tower.
it employed more than 200 workers by 1905, mostly to accommodate the
increased printing demands for elbert hubbard's amazingly popular
book "message to garcia'.

stone tower of print shop

...and beneath the tower is this wonderful oak door

the door reads "blessed is that man who has found his work"
a motto by elbert hubbard.

the chapel served as the meeting hall, built with local fieldstone in 1899,
it was the 2nd structure to be erected on the roycroft campus.
once filled with artwork, the roycrofters named it the "art gallery",
it now is used as the east aurora town hall.

sculpted terra cotta face of old man on the chapel peak facing main st.

crenelated tower of chapel, now offices for the town hall