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Central Park, Buffalo — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Central Park is a residential district of Buffalo west of Main Street, on avenues that cement magnate Lewis Jackson Bennett planted with trees himself.
About Central Park
Where to stay in Central Park
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Nothing on Depew Avenue takes guests. Bennett drew Central Park as a subdivision of detached houses on garden lots, and the streets between Parkside Avenue and Main Street have stayed that way, so the rooms are all out on the Main Street corridor. Amherst Street Station drops the Metro Rail forty feet under the district's southeastern corner, putting a room booked downtown a short ride from Morris Avenue.
Choose it for Delaware Park and the Buffalo Zoo across Parkside Avenue.
About Central Park
What are the main landmarks in Central Park?
Burke's Green anchors the streets. The triangle of park land came to the city from Lewis Jackson Bennett, lost its beehive rock fountain in the 1920s, took the name of F. Brendan Burke in the 1960s, and gained a replacement fountain in 2002. Two of the district's set pieces are gone.
Bennett's own 24-room house at 354 Depew Avenue was razed in 1935, and the Otowega Club at Linden and Starin came down after World War II. Bennett gave the Main Street land that carries Bennett High School and All-High Stadium.
What is the history of Central Park?
Limestone brought Bennett north. He was buying land in North Buffalo from 1875 for the quarry that became the Buffalo Cement Company two years later. In 1887 he laid out a residential subdivision across the company's ground with his son Leslie Jay Bennett and his co-owner William Pierce, and they took the name Central Park from Delaware Park nearby.
Milton Earl Beebe drew his house. Bennett staked the tree positions himself along each street, and Charles Besch cracked the rock beneath with small dynamite charges so the roots could take.
Where is Central Park?
Main Street bounds it east and Parkside Avenue west, with Woodbridge Avenue north, Amherst Street south, and the Linden Avenue railroad clipping the southwest.
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Updated September 2026