Delaware Park–Front Park System

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The Delaware Park–Front Park System is a historic, Olmsted-designed network of parks and parkways in Buffalo, New York, recognized for its significant role in American landscape architecture and urban planning.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf historic district
park and parkway system
urban park system
architecturalStyle pastoral landscape design
picturesque landscape design
country United States
designer Calvert Vaux
Frederick Law Olmsted
genre landscape architecture
hasCulturalSignificance model for comprehensive city park systems in the United States
hasPart Bidwell Parkway NERFINISHED
Chapin Parkway NERFINISHED
Delaware Park
Front Park
Lincoln Parkway NERFINISHED
Porter Avenue NERFINISHED
Richmond Avenue
The Parade (now Martin Luther King Jr. Park) – historically related component
The Parkways (Buffalo, New York)
hasUse public open space
recreation
scenic drives
heritageDesignation National Historic Landmark
National Register of Historic Places historic district
heritageDesignationAppliesToPart Delaware Park
Front Park
inception 1870s
locatedIn Buffalo, New York
Erie County, New York NERFINISHED
New York State
maintainedBy Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy
namedAfter Delaware Park
notableFor Olmsted-designed park and parkway network
influence on later American park systems
operator City of Buffalo
partOf Buffalo Olmsted Park System
Buffalo park and parkway system
planningConcept integrated system of parks and parkways
significance important example of 19th-century urban planning
important example of American landscape architecture

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Buffalo park and parkway system
heritageDesignationAppliesToPart

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