Elmwood Historic District–West is a national
historic district
A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains historic building, older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal p ...
located at
Buffalo,
Erie County, New York
Erie County is a county along the shore of Lake Erie in western New York (state), New York State. As of the United States Census 2020, 2020 census, the population was 954,236. However, in the 2023 census, the Erie County population was 946,147 ...
. The district encompasses 1,971 contributing buildings, 4 contributing structures, and 13 contributing objects in the
Elmwood Village neighborhood of Buffalo. It is built around the Buffalo Parks and Parkways system bounded on the north by
Delaware Park,
Forest Lawn Cemetery, and the former
Buffalo State Asylum, on the south by the
Allentown Historic District, and on the east by the
Elmwood Historic District–East. This predominantly residential district developed between about 1867 and 1941, and includes notable examples of
Queen Anne,
Shingle Style
The shingle style is an American architectural style made popular by the rise of the New England school of architecture, which eschewed the highly ornamented patterns of the Eastlake style in Queen Anne architecture. In the shingle style, Engli ...
,
Colonial Revival
The Colonial Revival architectural style seeks to revive elements of American colonial architecture.
The beginnings of the Colonial Revival style are often attributed to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, which reawakened Americans to the arch ...
,
Tudor Revival
Tudor Revival architecture, also known as mock Tudor in the UK, first manifested in domestic architecture in the United Kingdom in the latter half of the 19th century. Based on revival of aspects that were perceived as Tudor architecture, in rea ...
, and
American Craftsman
American Craftsman is an American domestic architectural style, inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement, which included interior design, landscape design, applied arts, and decorative arts, beginning in the last years of the 19th century. ...
style architecture. The district contains one of the most intact collections of built resources from turn of the 20th century in the city of Buffalo and western New York State. Located in the district are six previously listed contributing resources including the
Richmond Avenue Methodist-Episcopal Church and the
Buffalo Tennis and Squash Club. Other notable building include the H.C. Gerber House (1908), the Fred Dullard House (1910), the William H. Scott House (1904), St. John's-Grace Episcopal Church designed by
Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue
Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue (April 28, 1869 – April 23, 1924) was an American architect celebrated for his work in Gothic Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival design. He also designed notable typefaces, including Cheltenham and Merrymount for ...
(1925–26), Davidson House (1885), former Jehle Grocery Store and Residence (c. 1886, 1899), St. Luke's Episcopal Church (now Symphony Bible Church, 1886, 1893),
Temple Beth El (now Greater Emmanuel Temple Church, Inc., 1910–1911), Richmond Avenue Church of Christ (now Bryant Parish Condominiums (c. 1885–1887), and Pilgrim-St. Luke's United Church of Christ (1911).
It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...
in 2016.
References
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
Shingle Style architecture in New York (state)
Queen Anne architecture in New York (state)
Colonial Revival architecture in New York (state)
Tudor Revival architecture in New York (state)
Historic districts in Buffalo, New York
National Register of Historic Places in Buffalo, New York
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