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Other Olmsted Projects in Buffalo

Besides the several parks and parkways, Olmsted and his successor firms designed a number of other projects in Buffalo which were constructed or proposed over the years.

  • Parkside subdivision, 1872-1886 (partially completed).
    • Parkside Land and Improvement Company, 1866 (developers of Highland Parkside neighborhood.
    • Hyde Park Land Syndicate, 1885-1890 (developers of western portion of Parkside tract) (plans not located).
  • Niagara Square, 1874 (partially constructed?), design reworked, 1895 (not constructed)
  • City and County Hall (now Old Erie County Hall), 1875-1878 (the grounds facing Delaware avenue were destroyed in 1963 by a building addition).
  • New York State Asylum for the Insane (now the Buffalo Psychiatric Center, the Richardson-Olmsted Complex, and Buffalo State College), ca. 1877 (partially destroyed by building additions).
  • Lafayette Square, 1883, (landscape plan, destroyed by street realignment project in 1913).
  • Villa Park subdivision, 1885-1887. (Street plan intact.)
  • South Park (original proposal), 1886 (not constructed).
  • Additions to The Front, 1887-1891 (partially constructed).
  • John J. Albright residence, 730 West Ferry Street, Buffalo, NY 1890-1907 (demolished in 1935). (Albright was a principal in the firms which created the village of Depew for which Olmsted was engaged to create the street layout, and he was also a business partner of Wm. A. Rogers and of Edmund B. Hayes. Albright and Hayes were principals in the Ontario Power Company.).
  • Edmund B. Hayes residence, 147 North Street, Buffalo, NY, 1891-1893 (lost). (Hayes was a business partner of John J. Albright.).
  • William A. Rogers residence, 309 North Street, Buffalo, NY, 1893-1895 (lost). (Wm. A. Rogers was a business partner of John J. Albright.),
  • Robert W. Pomeroy residence, 70 Oakland Place, Buffalo, NY, 1896 or 1897 (plans not located, landscape status unknown)
  • Robert Livingston Fryer residence, 685 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY, 1900-1901. (Fryer was a son-in-law to Pascal P. Pratt.)
  • Spencer Kellogg, Sr. residence, 805 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY, 1904 (lost, site presently occupied by Temple Beth Zion).
  • Buffalo Civic Center, 1919 (not constructed).
Planting Plan, Residence of R. L. Fryer, 1901
Courtesy of the United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site.
Planting Plan, Residence of R. L. Fryer, 1901

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