The Structures of Parkside: An Authoritative Look at the History of Parkside's Homes By Steve Cichon, staffannouncer.com January 21, 2013 |
BUFFALO, NY (staffannouncer.com) - While the Buffalo Olmsted Park Conservancy now exists to run and maintain Buffalo's Parks, as first founded, The Friends of Olmsted were concerned not only with the parks and public spaces designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, but also with the streetscapes and other Olmsted designs which aren't necessarily parks, but are a part of the master landscape architect's "city within a park" idea. The Parkside neighborhood was designed by Olmsted as a buffer between Main Street and the serenity of the park meadow. In the early 1980s, the Friends of Olmsted worked to have many of Olmsted's landscape designs listed on the National Register. In 1986, with the help of the Parkside Community Association, "The Parkside Historic District" streetscape was recognized by state and national registers. Part of the several year process in gaining that status involved identifying each structure within the streetscape footprint, and identifying the characteristics of those structures. In other words, some very smart people looked at every house in Olmsted designed portion Parkside and wrote a brief description along with research on when the structure was built. The final report is several thousand pages long, and actually gives much greater detail on each of the 1109 "contributing principal buildings" of Parkside, but on this page are those brief descriptions of every house. The links below are hundreds of pages, painstakingly scanned, to provide information like this on every house:
This is an example of what you'll find inside... The listing for my home. Sadly, that glass door on the side porch didn't make it from the early '80s to 1999 when we first walked into the house.
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