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The Turtle (Native American Center for the Living Arts)

1981 establishments in New York (state)Buildings and structures completed in 1981Cultural centers in the United StatesNative American architectureNative American cultural institutions
Novelty buildings in New York (state)
UoNL Messana Collection P630B H626R.L N374 Turtle color head
UoNL Messana Collection P630B H626R.L N374 Turtle color head

The Turtle, also known as the Turtle Building or the Native American Center for the Living Arts, is a three-story building in Niagara Falls, New York. The building was opened in May 1981 as the headquarters for the Native American Center for the Living Arts, an organization dedicated to promoting Native American visual and performing arts. Its unique shape, with a geodesic dome roof "shell" and large porthole "eye" windows, invokes the Iroquois creation story of the earth forming on the back of a giant turtle. After closing in 1995 due to financial trouble, the building has remained vacant, with its future preservation and use in question.

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The Turtle (Native American Center for the Living Arts)
Prospect Street, City of Niagara Falls

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N 43.085263 ° E -79.06279 °
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Prospect Street 332
14303 City of Niagara Falls
New York, United States
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UoNL Messana Collection P630B H626R.L N374 Turtle color head
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