The Parade House - Table of
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The Parade House Illustrated History
In present Martin Luther King, Jr. Park, Buffalo,
New York
Designed by Calvert
Vaux
Erected in in 1875; burned
in 1876; reconstructed;
demolished in 1904
![]() Source: Webmaster's collection ![]() Original Vaux Parade House which burned in 1876 Source: "The Picture Book of Earlier Buffalo," Frank H. Severance, ed. Buffalo Historical Society, Vol. 16, 1912, p. 202 ![]() Original Vaux Parade House which burned in 1876 ![]() Original Vaux Parade House which burned in 1876 Source: Robert Dennis Collection of Stereoscopic Views, Photography Collection, Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints & Photographs, The New York Public Library ![]() Original Vaux Parade House which burned in 1876 Source: Robert Dennis Collection of Stereoscopic Views, Photography Collection, Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints & Photographs, The New York Public Library ![]() Reconstructed (by Wisedell as architect?) Parade House. The smaller Robert Wallace-designed park shelter replaced the reconstructed Parade House soon after its demolition in 1904. Photo courtesy of the Buffalo Olmsted Park Conservancy ![]() Reconstructed (by Wisedell as architect?) Parade House. The smaller (and still standing) Robert Wallace designed park shelter replaced the reconstructed Parade House soon after its demolition in 1904. Source: Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society Museum 2002 display |
For the new Buffalo parks, Vaux designed a number
of structures. Outstanding among them was the Parade House, a spectacular timber
building that Vaux proposed in 1871.
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