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Buffalo’s Olmsted Parkways: A Pioneering Example of Commemorative Street Naming

By Francis Kowsky - July 25, 2016

As part of their city-wide park design for Buffalo, landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux created a then-unique series of wide, tree-lined streets to connect the public spaces, which they labeled “parkways.” 

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