NEWS

Last week Clinton Brown got to visit the Holland Land Office Museum to present a copy of Olmsted’s Elmwood to Executive Director Ryan Duffy under the watchful eye of Joseph Ellicott. Ellicott described his vision for what would be called Buffalo, shown in map upper left, as a place ”…designed by nature for the grand emporium of the world…”.

Ellicott’s intersection of design, nature, and commerce in making a place worth living in infused the creation of Buffalo’s Elmwood District after the Civil War. The Holland Land Office Museum is a must see for all fans of Western New York’s past, present and future!