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Nominations ............ Landmarks and Historic Districts in Buffalo, NY

Elmwood Historic District (West)
National Register of Historic Places Nomination
Prepared by Clinton Brown Company Architecture/Rebuild (online May 2015)

Research by Jennifer Walkowski


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Nomination:
Section 7, page 1 -    Overview
Section 7, page 3 -    Resources
Section 7, page 4 -    Period of Significance
Section 7, page 4   Streets 
BIDWELL PARKWAY REPRINTED    WEST FERRY - REPRINTED
Section 7, page 14 -  Architecture
Section 7, page 16 -  Landscape Features
Section 7, page 17 -  Olmsted Parks and Parkways System
Section 7, page 19 -  Secondary Structures
Section 7, page 21 -  Non-contributing Elements
Section 7, page 22 Previously Listed Resources
Section 7, page 23Property List
Section 7, page 24Buildings List
                                By street, alphabetically: odd numbers first, then followed by even numbers
                                BIDWELL PARKWAY REPRINTED   
                                WEST FERRY - REPRINTED


Section 8, page 1 -   
Overview
Section 8, page 4 -    Early History of Buffalo (ca. 1790s-1853)  REPRINTED
Section 8, page 8 -    History of the Elmwood District (ca. 1860s - ca. 1910s)
Section 8, page 9 -    Lots
Section 8, page 13Road Development
Section 8, page 15Nurseries
Section 8, page 17Forest Lawn Cemetery
Section 8, page 19Creation of the 11th Ward
Section 8, page 24Need for open Space
Section 8, page 26 -  Frederick Law Olmsted - Parks & Parkways
Section 8, page 33 -  Buffalo State Asylum
Section 8, page 35 -  Streetcars and Public Transportation in Buffalo  REPRINTED
Section 8, page 38 -  Streetcar Suburbs in the US (ca. 1880s - 1920s)  
REPRINTED
Section 8, page 41 -  Growth of the Elmwood District (1870s - 1910s)
Section 8, page 51 -  Subdivisions and Land Use
Section 8, page 55 -  Land Value
Section 8, page 57 -  Turn of the Twentieth Century / Pan American Exposition
Section 8, page 59 -  Dorchester Road
Section 8, page 60 -  Changes in the Elmwood District (1910s - ca. 1940s)
Section 8, page 60 -  Elmwood Avenue Extension
Section 8, page 63 -  Automobiles
Section 8, page 67 -  Notable Residents of the Elmwood District
Section 8, page 71 -  Women in the Elmwood Historic District
Section 8, page 73 -  The Bidwell Farm
Section 8, page 74 -  Architecture
Section 8, page 107 - Builders and Developers
Section 8, page 111 - Architects
Section 8, page 114 - Conclusion

Section 9, page 1 -
    Bibliography

Section 10, page 1 -
  Verbal Boundary Description
Section 10, page 1 -  Boundary Justification



See also: 
Grant-Ferry-Forest Intensive Level Historic Resources Survey


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