Central Park (the Buffalo neighborhood, not the NYC park!) tour
May 04, 2004
9:30am Sat. Sept 18. 2-hour walk, $8/$6. Meet in front of Bennett High, Main near Hertel.
At the turn of the last century, upwardly mobile Buffalonians looked north of Delaware Park to build houses. They alighted in a real estate swath named Central Park, designed by cement magnate and visionary Lewis Bennett
Bennett shepherded this enclave into one of the city’s finest neighborhoods. So impressive and archetypical are the houses that one national guide to architecture cites many of them.
People living in Central Park today are lucky: After these houses were built, the Depression and high labor and material costs ended an era of domestic opulence.