
Clinton Brown Company Architecture/Rebuild - on the Buffalo Architecture and History Website
Nominations ............ Landmarks and Historic Districts in Buffalo, NY
Elmwood Historic District (EAST)
National Register of Historic Places Nomination
Prepared by Clinton Brown Company Architecture/Rebuild (online May 2015)
Research by Hannah Beckman
Sect. 1 - Name of Property
Sect. 2 - Location
Sect. 3 - State/Federal Agency Certification
Sect. 4 - National Park Service Certification
Sect. 5 - Classification
Sect. 6 - Function or use
Sect. 7 - Description: Architectural Classification
Sect. 8 - Statement of Significance: Applicable National register Criteria
Sect. 9 - Major Bibliographical References
Sect. 10 - Geographical Data
Sect. 11 - Form Prepared By
Sect. 7, p. 1 - Overview
Sect. 7, p. 3 - Resources
Sect. 7, p. 4 - Period of Significance
Sect. 7, p. 4 - Streets
Sect. 7, p. 19 - Architecture
Sect. 7, p. 20 - Landscape Features
Sect. 7, p. 21 - Olmsted Parks and Parkways System
Sect. 7, p. 23 - Secondary Resources - Urban Barns, Carriage Houses and Garages
Sect. 7, p. 24 - Methodology
Sect. 7, p. 25 - Non-contributing Elements and Integrity Assessment
Sect. 7, p. 26 - Previously Listed
Resources
Sect. 7, p. 27 - Resource List
Sect. 7, p. 28 - Buildings
List
[Individual addresses by street, alphabetically; odd and even
numbers listed separately] [First address: 146 Anderson Place; Last
address: 72 Windsor Avenue]
Sect. 8, p. 1 - Overview
Sect. 8, p. 5 - Early History of Buffalo (ca. 1790s-1853) REPRINTED
Sect. 8, p. 8 - History of the Elmwood District (ca. 1860s - ca. 1910s)
Sect. 8, p. 8 - Lots
Sect. 8, p. 13 - Road Development
Sect. 8, p. 15 - Nurseries
Sect. 8, p. 17 - Early Residential Development in Elmwood East
Sect. 8, p. 18 - Forest Lawn Cemetery
Sect. 8, p. 19 - Creation of the 11th Ward
Sect. 8, p. 23 - Need for open Space
Sect. 8, p. 25 - Frederick Law Olmsted - Parks & Parkways
Sect. 8, p. 31 - Buffalo State Asylum
Sect. 8, p. 35 - Large Estates, 1885-1920s
Sect. 8, p. 49- Streetcar Suburbs in the US (ca. 1880s - 1920s)
Sect. 8, p. 51 - Growth of the Elmwood District (1870s - 1910s)
Sect. 8, p. 60 - Subdivisions and Land Use
Sect. 8, p. 63 - Land Value
Sect. 8, p. 65 - Turn of the Twentieth Century / Pan American Exposition
Sect. 8, p. 67 - Frank Lloyd Wright's William Heath House, 1904-1905
Sect. 8, p. 71- Changes in the Elmwood District (1910s - ca. 1940s)
Sect. 8, p. 72 - Elmwood Avenue Extension
Sect. 8, p. 74 - Automobiles
Sect. 8, p. 76 - Median Streets, 1910s-1920s
Sect. 8, p. 84 - Midcentury Developments (1940s-1965)
Sect. 8, p. 86 - Midcentury Cul de Sacs
Sect. 8, p. 89 - Notable Residents of the Elmwood District
Sect. 8, p. 94 - Architecture
Sect. 8, p. 95 - Vernacular Houses
Sect. 8, p. 96 - Queen Anne and Shingle Style Houses
Sect. 8, p. 98 - Colonial Revival Houses
Sect. 8, p. 100 - Tudor Revival Houses
Sect. 8, p. 101 - Craftsman Houses
Sect. 8, p. 103 - Other Residential Styles
Sect. 8, p. 105 - Multiple-family dwellings, Duplexes, and Flats
Sect. 8, p. 107 - Apartment Buildings
Sect. 8, p. 115 - Commercial Architecture
Sect. 8, p. 117 - Converted Commercial Buildings
Sect. 8, p. 118 - Institutional Architecture and Service Buildings
Sect. 8, p. 119 - Institutional Buildings
Sect. 8, p. 120 - Public Services
Sect. 8, p. 124 - Ecclesiastic Architecture
Sect. 8, p. 126 - Builders and Developers
Sect. 8, p. 130 - Architects
Sect. 8, p. 133 - Conclusion
Sect. 9, p. 1 - Bibliography
Sect. 10, p. 1 - Verbal Boundary Description
Sect. 10, p. 1 - Boundary Justification
Sect. 10, p. 3 - Two maps
Sect. 11, p. 1 - Photo Log
Sect. 11, p. 3 - Buffalo Street Name Changes
Sect. 11, p. 4 - Historic Maps
Sect. 11, pp. 33-67 Historic Images
See also: Elmwood Historic District (WEST)
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