Rockwell Hall
Rockwell Hall of the Buffalo State (SUNY - State University of New York).
The building houses classrooms, the School of Arts and Humanities, the Art Conservation and Music departments, and the Performing Arts Center.
1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo NY 14222
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Partial and edited quote from PBS (America's Public Broadcasting Service)'s program on Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America.
www.pbs.org/wned/frederick-law-olmsted/learn-more/olmsted...
"Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903), America’s first and greatest landscape architect, designed a system of parks and parkways in Buffalo that was the first of its kind in the nation and represents one of his largest bodies of work.
Olmsted is most well-known as being the landscape designer of New York City's Central Park, yet Central Park is only a single block (OK, a massive block) of parkland in the heart of Manhattan, but in Buffalo, he was given the space and freedom and budget to build a series of parks that are linked by connecting parkways and tree-lined circles. Buffalo is regarded as the best-planned city in all of America by many. Buffalo is not merely a city with parks, but a city within a park system.
Listed in the National Register of Historic Places, Frederick Law Olmsted's park system consists of six major parks, their connecting parkways and circles, and several smaller spaces."
Rockwell Hall
Rockwell Hall of the Buffalo State (SUNY - State University of New York).
The building houses classrooms, the School of Arts and Humanities, the Art Conservation and Music departments, and the Performing Arts Center.
1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo NY 14222
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Partial and edited quote from PBS (America's Public Broadcasting Service)'s program on Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America.
www.pbs.org/wned/frederick-law-olmsted/learn-more/olmsted...
"Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903), America’s first and greatest landscape architect, designed a system of parks and parkways in Buffalo that was the first of its kind in the nation and represents one of his largest bodies of work.
Olmsted is most well-known as being the landscape designer of New York City's Central Park, yet Central Park is only a single block (OK, a massive block) of parkland in the heart of Manhattan, but in Buffalo, he was given the space and freedom and budget to build a series of parks that are linked by connecting parkways and tree-lined circles. Buffalo is regarded as the best-planned city in all of America by many. Buffalo is not merely a city with parks, but a city within a park system.
Listed in the National Register of Historic Places, Frederick Law Olmsted's park system consists of six major parks, their connecting parkways and circles, and several smaller spaces."