Buffalo, New York parks system

The Buffalo, New York, public parks and parkways system is the United States' oldest coordinated system of such recreational spaces, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux between 1868 and 1896. It was inspired in large part by the parkland, boulevards, and squares of Paris, France^[1]. It is on the National Register of Historic Places and is maintained by the Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy.

Olmsted designed

• Parks:
  • Bennett Place (later Bennett Park, lost)
  • Cazenovia Park
  • Day's Park
  • The Park (now Delaware Park)
  • The Front (now Front Park)
  • The Parade (AKA Humboldt Park, now Martin Luther King, Jr. Park)
  • Masten Place (lost)
  • Riverside Park
  • South Park
  • The Terrace (lost)

• Park approaches:
  • Parkways:
    • Bidwell Parkway
    • Chapin Parkway
    • Fillmore Avenue
    • Humboldt Parkway (lost)
    • Lincoln Parkway
    • South Side Parkway (now McKinley Parkway)
    • Porter Avenue
    • Red Jacket Parkway
    • The Avenue (now Richmond Avenue)
  • Circles:
    • Agassiz Place (now Agassiz Circle)
    • Bidwell Place (now Colonial Circle)
    • Ferry Circle
    • Chapin Place (now Gates Circle)
    • Woodside Circle (now McClellan Circle)
    • McKinley Circle (only partly constructed, finally completed in 2002)
    • Soldier's Place (now Soldier's Circle)
    • The Circle (now Symphony Circle)

References

External links

• Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy
• Olmsted and Vaux in Buffalo, New York
• Olmsted in Buffalo, New York
• Buffalo as an Architectural Museum, "Municipal Parks and City Planning: Frederick Law Olmsted's Buffalo Park and Parkway System," by Francis R. Kowsky, Reprinted with permission from the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, March 1987.