Martin Luther King Jr. Park

Martin Luther King Jr. Park, originally The Parade and after 1896, Humboldt Park, is a historic park located in Buffalo in Erie County, New York. The park is located in east Buffalo and bisected by Fillmore Avenue.

Martin Luther King Jr. Park
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Buffalo Museum of Science, December 2009
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Location	Roughly bounded by Northampton St., E. Parade Ave., Best St. and Kensington Expressway, Buffalo, New York
Coordinates	42°54′19″N 78°50′26″W
Area	56 acres (23 ha)
Built	1874
Architect	Olmsted, Olmsted & Eliot; Olmsted, Frederick L.
MPS	Olmsted Parks and Parkways TR
NRHP reference No.	82005027[1]
Added to NRHP	March 30, 1982

There is also a Martin Luther King, Jr., Park in Oberlin, Ohio.

The park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.^[1] The park is on a 56-acre (23 ha), slightly L-shaped site and was originally conceived as a place for military displays and active children's sports. It contains four contributing structures: The brick Shelter House (1904), Buffalo Museum of Science building (1926), Greenhouse (1907), and Humboldt Park Casino (ca. 1926).^[2]

History

The park was designed in 1874 by Frederick Law Olmsted and originally connected to Delaware Park via the Humboldt Parkway. That connection was lost in the early 1960s with the construction of the Kensington Expressway. The park originally contained a large wooden refectory, designed by Calvert Vaux; it was destroyed by fire in 1877.

In July 2009, a neatly manicured, tree-and flower-filled pedestrian pathway was unveiled by the Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy.^[3]

See also

• Buffalo, New York parks system

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
2. Claire L. Ross (December 1981). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Olmsted Parks and Parkways Thematic Resources". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Archived from the original on June 16, 2012. Retrieved June 14, 2009. See also: "Notifications". Archived from the original on June 16, 2012. and "Meeting minutes". Archived from the original on June 16, 2012.
3. Carswell, Ja'Nay (August 21, 2010). "Manicured new pathway opens in Martin Luther King Jr. Park". The Buffalo News. Archived from the original on June 11, 2011. Retrieved April 29, 2015.

External links

• Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy – Buffalo, NY, Western New York, WNY, Olmsted, Frederick Law
• Buffalo as an Architectural Museum, Martin Luther King Jr. Park
• Buffalo as an Architectural Museum, "Municipal Parks and City Planning: Frederick Law Olmsted's Buffalo Park and Parkway System," by Francis R. Kowsky, Reprinted with permission from the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, March 1987.
• Martin Luther King Jr. Park – Buffalo, NY – Olmsted designed parks on Waymarking.com