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Martin Luther King, Jr. Park
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Buffalo Museum of Science, December 2009
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| Location: | Roughly bounded by Northampton St., E. Parade Ave., Best St. and Kensington Expressway, Buffalo, New York |
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| Area: | 56 acres (23 ha) |
| Built: | 1874 |
| Architect: | Olmsted, Olmsted & Eliot; Olmsted,Frederick L. |
| Governing body: | Local |
| MPS: | Olmsted Parks and Parkways TR |
| NRHP Reference#: | 82005027[1] |
| Added to NRHP: | March 30, 1982 |
Martin Luther King, Jr. Park, originally "The Parade" and after 1896, Humboldt Park, is a historic park located at Buffalo in Erie County, New York. Located in east Buffalo and bisected by Fillmore Avenue, it is an individual park designed in 1874 by Frederick Law Olmsted and originally connected to Delaware Park via the Humboldt Parkway. That connection was lost in 1970-1971 with the construction of the Kensington Expressway. It is on a 56-acre (23 ha), slightly "L"-shaped site and originally conceived as a place for military displays and active children's sports. The park originally contained a large wooden refectory, designed by Calvert Vaux; it was destroyed by fire in 1877. The park contains four contributing structures: the brick Shelter House (1904); Buffalo Museum of Science building (1926); Greenhouse (1907); and Humboldt Park Casino (ca. 1926).[2] In July 2009, a neatly manicured, tree-and flower-filled pedestrian pathway was unveiled by the Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy.[3]
The park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[1]