Inviting Streets
Franklin Street
Franklin Street has a wealth of textbook examples of mid-19th Century architectural styles. Second Empire, Stick Style and Italianate are at every turn.
Millionaire's Row
Among our favorite images of Buffalo is the march of mansions along Delaware Avenue between Summer and Bryant. Throw in a pair of McKim, Mead & White mansions one block south and you have Millionaire's Row, one of the country's most impressive remaining collections of Gilded Age glamour.
Oakland Place
Oakland Place is a grand but little traveled one-block street opened in the late 1880s by Jewett Richmond, owner of a vast estate that once stretched from Delaware Avenue to the eponymous Richmond Avenue. It is quite the block. Some of Buffalo's finest homes were constructed on the street from about 1890 through the 1930s. It is especially notable for its stone period revival styles from the 1920s. The street is not only a Who's Who of architects, with houses by Green & Wicks, Hudson & Hudson and Duane Lyman, but a social directory of Buffalo's smart set. The street remains one of the most prestigious in Buffalo, with it most famous resident for decades being the Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo.
Tillinghast Place
The Arts & Crafts movement began in the latter half of the 19th century with John Ruskin and William Morris reviving handicrafts and reform architecture in reaction to industrialization and stylistic excess. The movement gathered force in the 1890s, with Gustave Stickley of Syracuse and Elbert Hubbard of Buffalo becoming cult figures. Parkside is Buffalo's Arts & Crafts neighborhood par excellence, and the environs of Tillinghast Place are particularly illustrative. The homey appeal of the bungalow and its oaken brethren - there is more oak on Tillinghast than in Sherwood Forest - is shown to great advantage under towering trees. There is even a house by the founder of the Chicago Arts & Crafts Society, Frank Lloyd Wright, the Davidson House.
(Courtesy of the Campaign for Greater Buffalo)
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