A few words about the Olmsted In Buffalo website:
Olmsted in Buffalo has been present on the internet since 1996, and will be celebrating a full 30 years of providing historical information about the Buffalo Olmsted parks system this coming August. It is actually only 7 years yoinger than the world wide web, itself!
This site was first 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 Parks and Parkways system of Buffalo, the relationship of Frederick Law Olmsted and his firm to the Buffalo parks, and the historic development of the system in Buffalo.
In 2012, the site was migrated from handcoded HTML to the WordPress authoring platform at the current http://www.olmstedinbuffalo.com address, 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 images had been added, and we provided a considerable expansion of content over what the older version of the site’s format was able to display.
Seeking better bandwidth for users, we moved to a new hosting provider in late 2016, and soon after that initiated a complete site refresh and further content expansion. In 2021, we again shifted to a new and more accommodating hosting provider (our current), findung there the stability and speed we were seeking. We look forward to adding much more content and considerably more imagery, both historic and current, as our time permits. That endeavor is well underway.
I don’t aim to confuse anyone, but please be aware that as a historian of the parks, I use the original names of the Olmsted-designed grounds, with the modern names of the grounds in parenthesis, to keep focus on Olmsted’s intentions and principles, maintaining a firm tie to the original designs. Similarly, it isn’t this website’s intention to serve as a guide to the many.amenities and features currently offered in the present parks of the system; other websites 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 we could be, our role as being that if historian and Olmsted advocate. We hope you find the information here interesting and useful.
Olmsted in Buffalo is the personal endeavor of the author and it is provided free for the benefit of the community. We have no paywall. 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, is copyrighted by Stanton M. Broderick. Inclusion by any other entity of the text and research provided here requires specific permission of the author, with appropriate citation, including the use of any of the content by any artificial intelligence program or service for any puropse.
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