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Cazenovia Park–South Park System is a historic park system located in the South Buffalo neighborhood at Buffalo in Erie County, New York, United States.The interconnected set of parkways and parks was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted as part of his parks plan for the city of Buffalo, as inspired in large part by the parkland, boulevards, and squares of Paris, France.
Cazenovia Creek is named after Theophilus Cazenove, an agent of the Holland Land Company. In 1897, landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted drew up plans for a park near the south city line of Buffalo. A farm at that location was purchased in 1890, and Cazenovia Park, straddling Cazenovia River
Also in South Buffalo is the Olmsted-designed Cazenovia and South Parks, the latter home to the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens. [12] According to the Trust for Public Land , Buffalo's 2020 ParkScore ranking showed high marks in access to parks, with 90% of city residents living within a ten-minute walk of a park.
In the late 1880s, they asked Olmsted to design a new park for South Buffalo; the eventual design included two new parks: Cazenovia Park and South Park, which was created in 1894-1900 from 156 acres (0.63 km 2) of farm land. [2] South Park eventually came to house today's botanical gardens, originally known as the "South Park Conservatory".
South Buffalo, as officially designated by the Buffalo City Council, is bordered by the town of West Seneca on the east, the City of Lackawanna on the south, Lake Erie on its western edge, and the Buffalo River on its northern border. New York State Route 16 (Seneca Street), Abbott Road, and South Park Avenue are the major streets serving South ...
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Buffalo, New York, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.
Jewettville – A location in the southwest corner of the town on NY-240. Knox Farm State Park – A park developed from the estate of the Knox family in 2000. South Wales – A hamlet shared between Aurora and the town of Wales. West Falls – A hamlet in the southwest corner of the town on the West Branch of Cazenovia Creek and NY-240.
Helen L. McNitt State Park is a 134-acre (0.54 km 2) state park located in the town of Cazenovia in Madison County, New York.The park is adjacent to Cazenovia Lake.Although it remained largely undeveloped since its donation to the state by the McNitt family in 1999, plans to improve lake access and facilities were approved in 2015.