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Delaware Avenue—Humboldt Parkway| 2.6 miles | 5,400 steps

Starting Location - Corner of Stop 1 - 873 W. Ferry St. Stop 2 - Corner of W. Ferry St. & Stop 3 - Fenton Village Apartments W. Ferry St. & Delaware Ave. Linwood Ave. (393 W. Ferry St.)

• Two excellent examples of the • Delaware Avenue was one of residential Bungalow style, first • Originally called Miller Street • Built in 1896 as The Fenton Hotel in Joseph Ellicott’s original radial anticipation of Pan American introduced in the 1890s. after Jacob S. Miller, who streets, coming north from Exposition attendees.

established Buffalo’s first livery. Niagara Square. • Traditional Bungalows are 1 1/2 [livery stable: a stable where horses • Originally could accommodate around • Following the Erie Canal story homes with widely 400 guests. are kept for hire and where stabling construction, Buffalo’s wealth overhanging eaves, relatively low is provided] • Purchased by Nick Sinatra of Sinatra & grew, and this street became to the ground, earthy tones, and Company in 2011 for $700,000 and one of the city’s most • Although homes were not as craftsman details like exposed renovated to incorporate 33 one & fashionable addresses. extravagant on Linwood as on two-bedroom units. brackets and organic materials, • Delaware was a comfortable Delaware, the neighborhood was • The Fenton Village project also distance from the city's • Note the distinguishing home to prominent Buffalonians included sidewalk-scaping, tree planting, and beautification. busyness, which was desirable features: prominent knee braces with beautiful homes. for the upper class. at the roofline and the sloping • Sinatra also owns the mixed-use • Once referred to as “Pill Alley” building next door at the corner of • Originally, Delaware had Elm (battered) limestone porch due to the number of upper- Ferry & Main Streets. trees on either side, creating supports. a canopy leading to Delaware middle-class doctors that Park. worked out of their homes. Stop 4 - Kiddy Skateland Stop 5 - Bethel African Stop 6 - Buffalo Academy for Stop 7– Corner of E. Ferry & Jefferson Ave. - Hamlin Park Sign Methodist Episcopal (AME) Visual and Performing Arts (33 E. Ferry St.)

Church (1525 Michigan Ave.) • Site of the former Offermann • Jefferson Ave. is the western bound- • Large exterior mural painted in Stadium, home of the ary of The Hamlin Park Historic 2015 by local artist, Chuck Tingley. • Founded in 1831—The oldest (1880s-1960). congregation of African descent in District, a prominent East Side • This mural brought to a close the the City of Buffalo & WNY. • Named in 1935 after former team residential neighborhood. year long Ferry Street Corridor owner, Frank Offermann. Project. • AME was the first independent • Named after Cicero Jabez Hamlin, African-American church in the • Ballpark had several previous names: • The project was designed to bring President of the Buffalo Grape Sugar country (1790s). , Buffalo Base Ball Park, together East Side and West Side Company, and a prominent and Bison Stadium. communities and schools through • Bethel AME Church began on landowner in Buffalo & East Aurora.

educational and public art projects. Carrol Street before moving to • The stadium was torn down in 1962, • In the 1860s, Hamlin opened the Vine Street (now the block of and Woodlawn Junior High School • The Ferry Street Corridor Project William Street between Oak and was built. popular Buffalo Driving Park, used was funded by the National Endow- Elm Streets) and finally, Michigan primarily for horse racing. ment of the Arts, The Community St. in 1953. • Woodlawn was renamed Buffalo Foundation for Greater Buffalo, and Traditional School and, in 2008, • The Driving Park closed after the Open Buffalo. became the home to The Buffalo turn-of-the-century, and the area Academy for Visual and Performing was developed residentially. Arts. Ferry Street Walking Route Delaware Avenue—Humboldt Parkway| 2.6 miles | 5,400 steps Stop 8 - Perkins Park Stop 9 - Patriot Height Stop 10 - Humboldt Parkway Stop 11 - 725 Humboldt Pkwy. -

Former Second United Presbyterian • Project to expand the park and build Apartments/Resource Council of • Original Humboldt Parkway was a sports complex began in 2018 and WNY (347 E. Ferry St.) designed by Frederick Law Olmsted Church of Buffalo

was initiated by the Buffalo Sabres • Former Humboldt YMCA Building and Calvert Vaux as part of their • The Second United Presbyterian Foundation. now home to 16 affordable housing 1870 master plan for Buffalo’s Park Church of Buffalo from c.1920-1957.

and Parkway System. • The complex is managed by the units and a community center. • The congregation was once part of the

Resource Council of WNY. It offers • $2.7M Redevelopment funded by • Humboldt was designed to connect historic First Presbyterian Church in a variety of youth programs like the Buffalo Sabres Foundation in Delaware Park to The Parade Downtown Buffalo (Now on Symphony hockey, lacrosse, soccer, and more. partnership with True Community (renamed MLK Park) using a Circle). tree-lined parkway. • Perkins Park is named after Charles Development, The City of Buffalo, • The congregation split because a large T. Perkins, the long-time Deputy and Saving Grace Ministries. • Similar to other Olmsted Parkways number of parishioners lived on Buffa-

Director of the Erie County • This affordable housing project is like Lincoln, Chapin, and Bidwell, lo’s East Side.

Community Action Organization. Humboldt Parkway contained an focused on helping female veterans • The two congregations divided up pro- inner green space and paths for • Perkins lived in the Hamlin Park in-need, find an affordable place to ceeds from the sale of their building foot traffic and vehicles. District and was active in his live. downtown and parted ways in the community and other East Side • The Resource Council of WNY runs • Humboldt Parkway was destroyed 1880s. districts. the community center. in the 1960s with the construction • Sold to the City of Buffalo in 1957 for of The Kensington Expressway $120,000. Most recently, it was home (Route 33) and entire to the Community Action Organization, neighborhoods bisected. Masten Center.

Stop 12 - St. Luke AME Zion Stop 13 - Doris Record Shop & Stop 14 - Route Designation: Stop 15 - Corner of E. Ferry St. & Church (314 E. Ferry St.) Mack Luchey (1935-2018) Dr. Robert E. Baines Way Sign (E. Masten Ave. - Masten Street Name

Ferry & Welker Streets) • • Mack Luchey and his wife, Doris, Masten Avenue is named after • Built c. 1920 in a Gothic Revival opened Doris Record Shop in 1962. the 13th and 15th City of Style. • Reverend Baines (1947-2011) Today, it is the oldest record shop in served his community and the Buffalo Mayor, Joseph Masten • Distinguishing features of the Buffalo. (1843-1844, 1845-1846). Zion Missionary Baptist Church Gothic Revival: pointed arches and • Next door, now a parking lot, stood from 1972-2011. sharp points of the front façade, an apartment building where James • Before becoming Mayor, Masten leading the eye upwards to the Ambrose Johnson Jr., better known • Before Zion M.B.C, Baines worked practiced law and later held a as Rick James, grew up. as a machinist, an electrician, and judgeship from the 1850s-1871. castle-like battlement at the top. • Supposedly, the shop had a real a supervisor at GM. • A.M.E.Z is a separate denomination impact on the young Rick James who • from A.M.E. The difference goes • Rev. Baines was also a Chaplain Masten purchased former army came back for a visit, gifting Luchey back to the time of their founding with the Buffalo Police barracks on Delaware Avenue a signed, plaqued album cover and in the mid-19th c. Department for over 10 years. and converted them to a home, poster. which later became the • The church has a many community • Luchey was one of the Juneteenth outreach programs, including a Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Festival founders and inducted into food pantry, clothing pantry, Site. the Buffalo Music Hall of Fame in scholarships, and gospel concerts. 2008. Ferry Street Walking Route Delaware Avenue—Humboldt Parkway| 2.6 miles | 5,400 steps

Stop 16 - The Freedom Wall Stop 17 - H.O.M.E. (1542 Main St. Stop 18 - 475 Linwood Ave. Stop 19 - 482 Linwood Ave.

• Completed in 2017, the Corner of Ferry & Main Streets) • Gothic Revival Style Church c. 1914 • A beautiful example of the Victorian ( Freedom Wall includes 28 sub-style “Queen Anne,” which • Founded in 1963, Housing • Gothic Revival style's popularity in portraits of individuals who are references the reign of Queen Anne of Opportunities Made Equal the US began in the 1830s and is part of America’s story of civil (H.O.M.E) provides England 1702-1714 and the represented in many forms from and human rights work, “with an Romanticism of the age. comprehensive services for High Victorian to more Vernacular eye toward contextualizing • A popular style in the US during the housing discrimination victims. deviations.

national work and local latter half of the 19th c. • Building owned by H.O.M.E, they impact.” (https://tinyurl.com/ • Distinctive Gothic features of this • Buffalo has an extensive collection of y3cxhqj3) operate out of the first floor and building include pointed windows, Queen Anne style residences, designated the second & third stained glass, front-facing gabled particularly in the Elmwood Village • This project is part of the floors as affordable housing roofs. and Delaware Districts, as well as along units, dubbed “Oxford Commons Albright Knox Art Gallery’s Linwood Avenue. Public Art Initiative and in Apartments.” • The former church has been on the collaboration with the Michigan market for a few years. Pitched as a • Distinctive Queen Anne features: • Charles Gordon and Conway & • Street African-American potential mixed-use commercial/ Asymmetrical façade Company Architects were in • Presence of a tower

Heritage Corridor. residential space. • charge of the full-scale A porch that covers most of • Local artists: John Baker, Julia multi-million dollar rehab and the front façade. Bottoms, Chuck Tingley, Edreys restoration project in 2011. • Decorated Tympanum: the Wajed triangular recessed face of the pediment above the porch steps. • Marks the beginning of the • Differing wall textures (see Michigan Avenue African fish-scales on the tower) American Heritage District

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