Martin Luther King Jr. Park Explained
| Martin Luther King Jr. Park |
| Location: | Roughly bounded by Northampton St., E. Parade Ave., Best St. and Kensington Expressway, Buffalo, New York |
| Coordinates: | 42.9053°N -78.8406°W |
| Built: | 1874 |
| Architect: | Olmsted, Olmsted & Eliot; Olmsted, Frederick L. |
| Added: | March 30, 1982 |
| Refnum: | 82005027 |
There is also a Martin Luther King, Jr., Park in Oberlin, Ohio.Martin Luther King Jr. Park, originally The Parade and after 1896, Humboldt Park, is a historic park located in Buffalo in Erie County, New York. The park is located in east Buffalo and bisected by Fillmore Avenue.
The park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The park is on a 56acres, slightly L-shaped site and was originally conceived as a place for military displays and active children's sports. It contains four contributing structures: The brick Shelter House (1904), Buffalo Museum of Science building (1926), Greenhouse (1907), and Humboldt Park Casino (ca. 1926).[1]
History
The park was designed in 1874 by Frederick Law Olmsted and originally connected to Delaware Park via the Humboldt Parkway. That connection was lost in the early 1960s with the construction of the Kensington Expressway. The park originally contained a large wooden refectory, designed by Calvert Vaux; it was destroyed by fire in 1877.
In July 2009, a neatly manicured, tree-and flower-filled pedestrian pathway was unveiled by the Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy.[2]
See also
External links
- Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy – Buffalo, NY, Western New York, WNY, Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Buffalo as an Architectural Museum, Martin Luther King Jr. Park
- 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.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Park – Buffalo, NY – Olmsted designed parks on Waymarking.com
Notes and References
- Web site: National Register of Historic Places Registration: Olmsted Parks and Parkways Thematic Resources. December 1981. 2009-06-14. Claire L. Ross. New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120616174713/http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=100208. 2012-06-16. See also: Web site: Notifications. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120616174745/http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=100206. 2012-06-16. and Web site: Meeting minutes. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120616174755/http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=100207. 2012-06-16.
- Web site: Carswell. Ja'Nay. Manicured new pathway opens in Martin Luther King Jr. Park. The Buffalo News. April 29, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20110611044632/http://www.buffalonews.com/incoming/article2967.ece. June 11, 2011. August 21, 2010.
