. >> parkside is a neighborhood which was designed by frederick olmsted and acts as a buffer between delaware park and the hustle and bustle of buffalo. when olmsted came to buffalo to design this park buffalo needed park space because it was filled with factories and tanneries and all sorts of age to have industries and smelly things that people wanted to come to a part to get away from. olmsted thought i'm going to build this park but don't want all this nasty stuff right on the edge, so he designed this neighborhood to go around the outside of the park to give it a buffer, a residential area that would separate the park from the factories in some of the more unsightly things that people don't want to be reminded of in the park. it is the buffer between delaware park and the hustle and bustle of the rest of what is going on in the history of the city. this was all one guys backyard, a very wealthy newspaper publisher who lived up on main street in the hustle and bustle. he sold his land, his backyard, his farm to the city in order that they had a place to build this beautiful park.

from a book written by the great frederick law olmsted, he observed the following. in the newspapers in 1865, there was an account of the apprehension of 24 gentile colored men who had been found by an assembly in the evening and have been lodged in the white house. the object of the meeting appears to been benevolent. and when they were examined before a magistrate in the morning, no evidence was offered, nor does there seem to be any suspicion that they had any criminal purpose. on searching their persons it was found a bible, a printed constitution of the society the object of which was said to be to relieve the sick, and an institution paper to purchase the freedom of liza howard, a young woman who the owner was going to sell at $630. four others called in the papers, freemen and named johnny bennett, chester taylor, they were sent to the workhouse and remained there on paying cost to court and fines amounting in the aggregate to $111. the children don't know that we could not always get up and go anyplace we wanted to. that we could not always stay anyplace we

frederick law olmstead. it acts as a buffer between delaware park and the hustle and bustle of buffalo. when olmsted came to buffalo to design this park, buffalo needed park space because it was filled with factories and tanneries and, you know, all sorts of industry and smelly things that people wanted to come to a park to get away from. olmsted thought, well, i'm going to build this park, but i don't want all of this nasty stuff people are trying to get away from right on the edge. so he built, designed this neighborhood to go around the outside of the park to give it a buffer, you know, a residential area that would separate the park from the factory ands some of the more unsightly things that people don't want to be reminded of when they're in a park. that's what parkside is. it's a little buffer between delaware park and the hustle and bustle of the rest of what's going on in the city. it's interesting that this was all one guy's backyard, a very wealthy newspaper publisher who lived up on main street and the hustle and bustle a couple of blocks away from here. he sold his land, his backyard, h