Delaware Park
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- For the horse track of the same name see Delaware Park Racetrack.
| Delaware Park-Front Park System | |
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| U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
| Location: | Buffalo, New York |
| Architect: | Frederick Law Olmsted; Calvert Vaux |
| Added to NRHP: | March 30, 1982 |
| NRHP Reference#: | 82005029 [1] |
| MPS: | Olmsted Parks and Parkways TR |
| Governing body: | Local |
Delaware Park is located in Buffalo, New York, USA. It was designed as part of a coordinated system of parks, parkways, and traffic circles in the city by Frederick Law Olmsted. Constructed in 1871 and covering 350 acres (1.4 km²), Delaware Park is the centerpiece of the Buffalo, New York parks system. It is home to Shakespeare in Delaware Park, a summer tradition since the mid-1970s, and the second-largest outdoor Shakespeare festival in the United States (after New York City's).
A widening of Scajaquada Creek, which flows westward through the park, is called Hoyt Lake.
Named simply The Park by Olmsted, it was later renamed in ultimate reference to the Lenape Eastern Algonquian tribe known to Europeans as the Delaware.
[edit] References
- ^ National Register Information System. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service (2007-01-23).
[edit] External links
- Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy
- Olmsted Parks in Buffalo from Stanton M. Broderick
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