Calvert Vaux was not the only architect to design structures for Buffalo’s Olmsted parks – many other notable architects did so as well.
Howard L. Beck (City Architect, City of Buffalo)
Designed – Point of the Meadow Shelter House, Delaware Park (1926)
– Bandstand, Cazenovia Park (1926, converted to use as a garage in 1953)
– Casino, Martin Luther King Park (1926)
– Skating Warming House, Cazenovia Park (1926)
Gordon Bunshaft (Skidmore, Owings and Merrill)
Designed – Addition, Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Henry L. Campbell
Designed – Sheep barn, Delaware Park (1886)
– Shelter House, Bennett Park (1888-1889, demolished date unknown)
– Shelter House, Mastern Park (1888-1889, demolished 1895)
– Barn and stable, Delaware Park (1893, demolished about 1950)
– Animal House, deer paddock, Delaware Park (1896)
– Bear pits, Delaware Park (1897)
– Addition to Superintendent’s House, Delaware Park (1898)
– Replacement Assistant Superintendent’s house, Elmwood Ave., Delaware Park (1897-8, demolished about 1950)
– Shelter House, Front Park (1898), converted to open picnic shelter in 1951.
– Lily Pond Shelter House, Delaware Park (1900-1901)
– Russell Street Shelter House, Delaware Park (1900-1901)
– Delaware & Forest Aves. Shelter House (1901), demolished 1935.
August Esenwein and Robert Johnson (Essenwein and Johnson)
Designed – Casino, Cazenovia Park
Elephant House, Zoo, Delaware Park
Parkside Lodge, Delaware Park
Shelter House, Prospect Park (1907-1908)
Edward Brodhead Green and William Sydney Wicks (Green & Wicks, later E.B. Green and Son)
Designed – New Boat House, Delaware Park (1900-1901)
– Albright Knox Art Gallery, Delaware Park (1900-1905)
– Shelter House, Lily Pool, Delaware Park (1900)
– Shelter House, Cazenovia Park (1902)
– Fountain and seating, Gates Circle (1902)
George Cary
Designed – New York State Pavilion, now Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society, Delaware Park (1901)
– Brick horse barn, Delaware Park, located south of Agassiz Circle, close to the Forest Lawn Cemetery boundary (1909) [Horseshoe shaped, it replaced a wooden 3-sided structure located near the Art Gallery building.]
– Wing additions, Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society, Delaware Park (1925-1929).
Eugene L. Holmes (earlier, partner in Holmes & Little; partnership dissolved 1882)
Designed – Lake View House (1882, demolished 1898)
Expansion, Boat House, Delaware Park (1884, demolished 1899)
Anthony O. James (formerly Park Architect, Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy; presently Consulting Park Architect).
Designed – Martin Luther King Park Picnic Shelters (2012)
– Restoration, Front Park Picnic Shelter (2013)
– Restoration, Martin Luther King Park Casino (2014-2017)
– River Rock Gardens (Minnow Pool) Pedestrian Bridge, Riverside Park (2014)
– Reconstruction, Crowley Avenue Shelter House, Riverside Park (2014-2016)
– Restoration, Japanese Garden Entrance Gate, Delaware Park (2017)
– Reconstruction, Rose Garden Pergola, Delaware Park (2017)
– Restoration, Martin Luther King Park Casino (2014-2017)
– Restoration, Cazenovia Park Shelter House (2017)
– Restoration, Rumsey Park Shelter House (2018-2019)
Robert Johnson (Essenwein and Johnson), see Albert Essenwein, above.
Irwin Klein
Designed – Thomas Tosh Collins Community Center, Cazenovia Park (1969-1971; enlarged 2002, design by Michael S. Nowak on behalf of BHNT Architects PC, 2000.)
Edward Lindsay (City Architect, City of Buffalo)
Designed – Renovation of Delaware Park Casino (1990)
Lord and Burnham Co.
Designed – Greenhouses, Delaware Park (circa 1900)
– Conservatory, South Park (1897-1900, rebuilt 1930)
– Conservatory, Martin Luther King Park (1909, additions 1911-1912, front section rebuilt 1938)
Fred H. Loverin and Frederick Whelan (Loverin & Whelan)
Designed – Bandstand, Front Park (1898, demolished 1950)
Bandstand, Humboldt Park (1898, demolished 1950)
Bandstand, Delaware Park (1898, demolished about 1940)
Melvin Morris
Designed – Alterations to Delaware Park Casino (1961)
Stephen J. Palmisano
Designed – Connors, Kait & Harrity Natatorium, Cazenovia Park (1981)
– Timothy J. Burvid Ice Rink reconstruction, Cazenovia Park (ca. 1980)
– Reuben “Bud” Blakewell Ice Rink reconstruction, Riverside Park (ca. 1980)
Cyrus K. Porter
Designed – The Parade House (reconstructed) (1876)
Stieglitz Snyder Architecture
Designed – Addition to Buffalo Museum of Science for the Dr. Charles R. Drew School of Science (1990)
Sebastian J. Tauriello
Designed – Niagara Branch Library, Prospect Park (1957)
Robert Alexander Wallace
Designed – Shelter House, Humboldt Park (1903)
Frederick Whelan (Loverin & Whelan), see Fred H. Loverin, above.
William Sydney Wicks (Green & Wicks), see Edward Brodhead Green, above.
Thomas Wisedell (in collaboration with Calvert Vaux)
Designed – Refectory, or The Parade House (1875 – destroyed by fire, 1877)
– Carriage sheds and barn, The Parade (1875 – sheds demolished and barn relocated to 1119 Street, 1903)
– Summer House, or Spire House (1875 – demolished, unknown date after 1928)
– Boat Landing Seating (1875 – demolished, unknown date after 1940)
– Boat House, The Park (1875 – enlarged by E. L. Holmes in 1883-1884, demolished 1899)
– Stone walls and curbing, City and County Hall (1877)
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