:''There is also a Martin Luther King, Jr., Park in

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.'' Martin Luther King Jr. Park, originally The Parade and after 1896, Humboldt Park, is a historic

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located in Buffalo in Erie County,

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. The park is located in east Buffalo and bisected by Fillmore Avenue. The park was listed on the

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in 1982. The park is on a , slightly "L"-shaped site and was originally conceived as a place for military displays and active children's sports. It contains four contributing structures: The brick Shelter House (1904),

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building (1926), Greenhouse (1907), and Humboldt Park Casino (ca. 1926). ''See also:'' ''and''

History

The park was designed in 1874 by

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and originally connected to Delaware Park via the Humboldt Parkway. That connection was lost in the early 1960s with the construction of the

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. The park originally contained a large wooden

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, designed by

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; it was destroyed by fire in 1877. In July 2009, a neatly manicured, tree-and flower-filled pedestrian pathway was unveiled by the Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy.

References

External links

Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy – Buffalo, NY, Western New York, WNY, Olmsted, Frederick Law
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060713062314/http://preserve.bfn.org/bam/kowsky/kowold/ Buffalo as an Architectural Museum, "Municipal Parks and City Planning: Frederick Law Olmsted's Buffalo Park and Parkway System,"] by Francis R. Kowsky, Reprinted with permission from the ''Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians'', March 1987.
Martin Luther King Jr. Park – Buffalo, NY – Olmsted designed parks on Waymarking.com
Parks on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) 1874 establishments in New York (state) Geography of Buffalo, New York Parks in Erie County, New York Frederick Law Olmsted works National Register of Historic Places in Buffalo, New York Memorials to Martin Luther King Jr. {{ErieCountyNY-NRHP-stub