The guest list for Wednesday's dedication and private premiere of the "lost buildings" at the Darwin Martin House Complex certainly tells you the project is resonating far and wide.

Gov. George E. Pataki will be on hand to celebrate the substantial completion of a long, complex and expensive project in which the state was a key partner. So will Bernadette Castro, commissioner of the state Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, the agency that oversaw the work.

If Sens. Charles E. Schumer and Hillary Rodham Clinton attend as hoped, it will bring full circle the late Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan's early role in saving Frank Lloyd Wright's abandoned masterpiece.

Architect Eric Lloyd Wright and Darwin Martin Foster will honor their grandfathers by cutting a ribbon opening the newly replicated facilities - the pergola, conservatory and carriage house - as well as the gardener's cottage and new greenhouse.

Five speakers intimately involved in the restoration will acknowledge stakeholders.

Buffalo News Publisher Stanford Lipsey will laud key donors; Robert D. Gioia, president of the Darwin Martin House Restoration Corp., will recognize elected officials and the corporation board members; Robert J. Kresse, chairman and past president of the restoration group, will discuss the University at Buffalo's role in moving the project ahead; Charles W. Banta, a past Martin House president, will single out local and national foundations that contributed; and Howard Zemsky, immediate past president, will credit staff, volunteers, community members and the Wright and Martin families.

More than 300 guests are expected to attend the 3 p.m. program, far more than Darwin D. and Isabelle Martin invited to a formal reception on Nov. 16, 1906 - the coming out party for their new home.

The couple "gave a delightful reception last evening from 8 until 11 o'clock," the Buffalo Courier reported the following day. "The host and hostess received with Mr. Frank Lloyd Wright of Chicago. Chrysanthemums of many colors adorned the various rooms, pink ones being used in the receiving room, red flowers in the drawing room and yellow in the library. Supper was served in the basement from a buffet table adorned with yellow and white chrysanthemums."

At Wednesday's ceremony, each guest will receive a commemorative copy of "Frank Lloyd Wright's Buffalo," the documentary produced by WNED-TV (Channel 17) for the Public Broadcasting System.

Toshiko Mori, who designed the yet-to-be-built Darwin Martin House Visitor Center, will lecture at 5:30 p.m. in the Crosby Hall auditorium on the University at Buffalo's South Campus on Main Street. The public is welcome.

The reconstructed buildings will open Thursday for tours by reservation, with regular tour hours expected to begin in November. For more information, call 856-3858; log on to Darwinmartinhouse.org; or e-mail tours@darwinmartinhouse.org.

e-mail: tbuckham@buffnews.com