miketoronto
09-29-2007, 06:57 PM
For anyone who is interested in that great city to the south of us, there is a bus tour of the Buffalo Olmstead Park system on Oct 13, 2007. The Buffalo Olmstead Park system is the first masterplanned city park system developed. Following is information from the Olmstead Conservancy. Hope some of you will come out and support this national historical landmark, and learn about this planning legacy and about the great neighbour we have to the south.
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http://www.buffaloolmstedparks.org/about.asp
OLMSTED PARKS SYSTEM GUIDED BUS TOUR
TO COMMEMORATE THE OCTOBER STORM
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Bus leaves/returns from the Delaware Park Casino, behind Albright Knox Art Gallery
There are three tour options:
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
12:45 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.
2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Tours are expected to run about 90 minutes
Payment due with registration.
Pricing:
TICKETS:
$10 Per person,
$5 children 13 and under
GROUP RATES AVAILABLE
Call 838-1249 ext. 17 for details
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The Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy (the Conservancy) is a not-for-profit, membership-based, community organization. Beginning as the Friends of the Olmsted Parks in 1978, it entered a public/private partnership with the City of Buffalo in 1995. Through a City-County-Conservancy agreement that became effective on July 1, 2004, it became the first not-for-profit organization in the nation to manage a park system.
Frederick Law Olmsted is America's first and greatest landscape architect. He once said, "A park is a work of art, designed to produce certain effects upon the minds of men." His system of parks and parkways in Buffalo is historic because it is the first of its kind in the nation and represents one of his largest bodies of work. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the System consists of six major parks, their connecting parkways and circles, and several smaller spaces. Today, it comprises 75% of the city's parkland.
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http://www.buffaloolmstedparks.org/about.asp
OLMSTED PARKS SYSTEM GUIDED BUS TOUR
TO COMMEMORATE THE OCTOBER STORM
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Bus leaves/returns from the Delaware Park Casino, behind Albright Knox Art Gallery
There are three tour options:
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
12:45 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.
2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Tours are expected to run about 90 minutes
Payment due with registration.
Pricing:
TICKETS:
$10 Per person,
$5 children 13 and under
GROUP RATES AVAILABLE
Call 838-1249 ext. 17 for details
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The Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy (the Conservancy) is a not-for-profit, membership-based, community organization. Beginning as the Friends of the Olmsted Parks in 1978, it entered a public/private partnership with the City of Buffalo in 1995. Through a City-County-Conservancy agreement that became effective on July 1, 2004, it became the first not-for-profit organization in the nation to manage a park system.
Frederick Law Olmsted is America's first and greatest landscape architect. He once said, "A park is a work of art, designed to produce certain effects upon the minds of men." His system of parks and parkways in Buffalo is historic because it is the first of its kind in the nation and represents one of his largest bodies of work. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the System consists of six major parks, their connecting parkways and circles, and several smaller spaces. Today, it comprises 75% of the city's parkland.
