Chapin Parkway, looking north toward Soldiers Circle

"... initially part of the Granger farmland and estate"

English Manor Style. Architects: Esenwein & Johnson

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Trefoil motif on wrought iron

Side entry and porch

Main entry (north side) and portico

Portico details: Entablature, Tuscan column

Rear of house

Rear of house

Carriage house

Carriage house

1931 photo of the Mrs. James H. McNulty House

When Frederick Law Olmsted designed the Buffalo parks system in 1869, he invented the concept of the parkway. The idea was to create long fingers of green stretching into the city from large parks, giving shape to a chaotic city and providing a public amenity which would increase the value of adjacent land. It worked like a charm

Chapin Parkway, particularly, was a real estate speculator's dream: connected to Delaware Avenue, it became the logical place for Buffalo's rich to build as the city grew out to the area in the 1890s.

The sons and daughters of the city's l9th century titans built here,as did some of the titans themselves, as lower Delaware Avenue became a busier and more commercialized place. The many Georgian Revival houses lend a quiet coherence to the street. One architectural firm, Lansing & Beierl, is particularly well represented, and Esenwein & Johnson were not far behind.

It's a pleasant promenade along a street intact from first construction.

-- Source: Tim Tielman, "Buffalo Tours 2001" catalog