Olmsted Parks Conservancy

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Facilities

If you’re looking for a unique and scenic location for your next party, meeting, a wedding or other ceremony; consider one of the venues in the Olmsted Parks.

Marcy Casino
Parkside Logde
Cazenovia Casino
The Rose Garden
Japanese Garden

Directions

Olmsted parks are not difficult to find in Buffalo. We have one of our 6 major parks in virtuallly every neighborhood in the city.

Volunteer

Roll up your sleeves and prepare to get your hands dirty helping the Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy in its mission to maintain the historic Olmsted parks in Buffalo. We need help gardening, removing invasive species, and planting trees!

Board of Trustees

Karen Arrison		Design and Review Committee
Jayne Attardo		Mayor Appointee
Jeffrey Barbeau		Chair, Change for the Parks
Joan Bozer		Long-Range Planning Committee
Joseph Castiglia		Audit, Chair
Ann Louise Ciminelli		Institutional Advancement
David Colligan		Chair, Exec. Comm., Finance Comm., Long-Range Planning (NYPA)
Richard Cummings		Buildings and Grounds Committee
James Derrick		Finance Committee
Susan Elkin		Finance, Vice Chair Long Range Planning
Dorothy Ferguson		Institutional Advancement Committee
S. Jay Ferrari		County Appointee
Richard Griffin		Board Governance Audit
Anne Harding Joyce		Chair Elect Executive Buildings and Grounds Comm.
Jim Hornung		Ex-Officio
James Iglewski		Chair, Finance Executive, Governance
Florence Johnson		Governance Committee
Kevin Kelly		Buildings & Grounds Comm.,Long-Range Planning Comm.
Bob Kresse		Governance Long-Range Planning Comm.,
Mary Lawley - Ross		Institutional Advancement, Vice-Chair 2010 Gala, Advisory Council and Change for the Parks committee
Ivan Lee		Long Range Planning Committee
Mark Mistretta		Long-Range Planning
Gary Mucci		Finance Comm., Executive Comm.
Alan Pawlowski		Finance Chair, Party for the Parks
Corinne Rice		Trustee, Emeritus Co-Chair, Capital Campaign
Victor Rice		Executive Long-Range Planning, Government Relations
Bill Rupp		Long-Range Planning, Buildings and Grounds, Party for the Parks
Andrea Schillaci		Design Review Chair, Executive
Herbert Siegel		Institutional Advancement
Mary Simpson		City Appointee
Gretchen Toles		Trustee Emeritus Institutional Advancement Committee
Heidi Welsby		Institutional Advancement
Deborah Lynn Williams		Advisory Council Chair Institutional Advancement Long-Range Planning

History

In the late 1800s, visionary citizens brought Olmsted to Buffalo. It was here that Olmsted, inspired by Joseph Ellicott's radial street layout, designed his first system of parks and parkways, and proclaimed Buffalo to be "the best designed city in the country, if not the world." During the 1901 Pan American Exposition, Buffalo was celebrated not only as the City of Light, but the City of Trees.

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