A few words about the Olmsted In Buffalo website:
Olmsted in Buffalo has been present on the internet since 1996, and will be celebrating 30 years of providing historical information about Buffalo’s Olmsted parks system this coming August.
It first was hosted on the old GeoCities.com service, and later was moved to its own web domain when GeoCities announced its impending shutdown. It is the oldest website focused solely on the Buffalo Parks and Parkways system, its relationship with Frederick Law Olmsted and his firm, and its historic development.
The site was migrated to the WordPress authoring platform at the current http://www.olmstedinbuffalo.com address in 2012, maintaining in an updated format the original goal of a simple and uncluttered appearance of the original. A mobile version, cutting edge for the time, was simultaneously put in place. More parks images had been added, and we provided a considerable expansion over what the older version of the site format was able to display.
We worked through some issues in late 2016, but with a new hosting provider and the dust settled, a complete site refresh and further content expansion was completed. In 2021, we again shifted to a new and more accommodating hosting provider, and have found there the stability and speed we were seeking. We look forward to add still more content and considerably more imagery, both historic and current as our time permits.
I don’t aim to confuse anyone, but do be aware that I use the original names of the Olmsted-designed grounds, with the modern names of the grounds in parenthesis, as my focus is primarily on Olmsted’s intentions and principles. It is my way of maintaining a firm tie to the original designs. Similarly, it isn’t my purpose to serve as a guide to amenities presently offered in the present parks of the system; other sites will be more appropriate to consult if you are seeking operational hours, features available, schedules or costs. They will be more current and detailed in that information than I could be, as I see my role as being a historian and an Olmsted advocate. I do hope you find the information here interesting and useful.
For those not aware, Olmsted in Buffalo is the personal endeavor of the author and it is provided free for the benefit of the community. No paywall here! It is not affiliated with, nor sponsored by, any individual, organization, business, or governmental entity, nor is the author compensated or reimbursed for his work. All content, unless specifically noted otherwise, are copyrighted by Stanton M. Broderick. Inclusion by any other entity requires specific permission of the author with appropriate citation, including the use of any of the content by any artificial intelligence program or service.
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