Parkside is a neighborhood located between Delaware Park and the New York Central railroad line. The neighborhood was laid out by Frederick Law Olmsted, who wanted the neighborhood to form a transition zone between the city of Buffalo and the park that he had designed. The streets were curved, and none lead straight into Buffalo, because Olmsted wanted residents to travel at a leisurely pace. When the Belt Line Railroad came through the area in 1882, industrial development began, and lots in the neighborhood were sold by the mid-1880s. Houses were built by the 1890s, and electricity was provided via Niagara Falls.


Houses on Main Street.

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Houses on Robie Street.

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Houses on Crescent Avenue.

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Houses on Crescent Avenue.

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A house on Crescent Avenue.

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Houses on Crescent Avenue.

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Houses on Summit Avenue.

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Houses on Russell Avenue.

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Houses on Woodward Avenue.

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The Darwin Martin House, on Jewett Parkway. The house was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for Darwin Martin, who was an executive for the Larkin Soap Company. The house was built in Wright's famous Prairie Style and was completed in 1906.

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Houses on Jewett Parkway.

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Houses on Summit Avenue. The house on the left was Darwin Martin's house when he commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to build the house on Jewett Parkway, and was built in 1897.

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The Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, on Jewett Parkway. The church was built in 1887.

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The Crescent Garden Apartments, on Crescent Avenue.

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A stone house on Greenfield Street.

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Houses on Greenfield Street.

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Houses on Parkside Avenue.

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A building on Parkside Avenue at Russell Avenue.

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Delaware Park is located on the western side of the neighborhood. The park was constructed in 1871 by Frederick Law Olmsted and is Buffalo's centerpiece in the city park system. Olmsted originally named the parkland "The Park", but the park was later renamed after nearby Delaware Avenue.

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Houses on Woodward Avenue.

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St. Mark's Roman Catholic Church, on Woodward Avenue. The parish was started in 1908.

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Mount St. Joseph Academy, on Main Street at Jewett Parkway. The school was founded in 1891 by the Sisters of St. Joseph.

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Businesses on Main Street at Greenfield Street.

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Vernon Triangle is a small neighborhood east of Parkside. The neighborhood is bounded by Main Street to the east, the old Belt Line Railroad to the west, and Amherst Street to the north, to form a triangle. Like Parkside, the neighborhood was developed in the late 1880s ad early 1890s when the Belt Line Railroad offered rail service to the area.


A house on Starin Avenue at Ahmerst Street. The house is the last remaining station from the New York Central's Buffalo Belt Line Railroad. The railroad station was built in 1890.

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Buildings on Amherst Street. The Fairfield Branch Library is on the right.

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Houses on Vernon Place.

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Houses on Vernon Place.

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Houses on Fairfield Street.

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Houses on Fairfield Street.

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Houses on Amherst Street.

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Houses on Orchard Place.

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Businesses on Main Street at Vernon Place.

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great photos of a great neighborhood

I went to the Martin House when I was back earlier this year. That is a very impressive neighborhood. Even the out of town San Francisco guests were very impressed. When we started talking housing prices, they got weepy.

Beautiful!!

A little Oasis in the middle of Buffalo, I like it! Great pics of the Darwin Martin House. I like the houses and Delaware Park looks nice, too!

parkside really is a phenominal neighborhood. whats cool is, unlike much of buffalo, where the larger houses are either doubles(like the ones shown in vernon triangle) or large victorians broken into apartments, parkside has alot of big single family homes.

my roommate's folks own a very nice house on starin. the damn thing is huge.

Ahh, the last Buffalo neighborhood I lived in. I've lived in many parts of Buffalo: the Elmwood Village, Allentown, the West Village, and the (generic) West Side. I can honestly say that living in this part of the city was the greatest, in my opinion. It's the best of everything the city has to offer like easy subway access and close proximity to Buffalo's best public park including the zoo and the art gallery. There's an Italian neighborhood nearby and the university. I can't say enough about it. If I still wanted to live in Buffalo, this is the neighborhood I'd choose.

^^ May I ask what ran you out of town?

^^ May I ask what ran you out of town?

My job made an offer that I couldn't refuse, and the timing was right to go.

My job made an offer that I couldn't refuse, and the timing was right to go.

I see... So it wasn't that you wanted to get out of Buffalo as fast as you could, it was for a job... I suppose that's common nowadays.