Landscape Into Cityscape: Buffalo’s Pioneering Park System

By Francis Kowsky - October 15, 2013

Thanks to the ground-breaking ideas of Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, the beautiful Buffalo park and parkway system was the first of its kind in the world.

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