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February 17, 2015. Broadway Historic District is a national historic district located at Lancaster in Erie County, New York. The district encompasses 85 contributing resources in the village of Lancaster. The district includes a variety of commercial, residential, religious and institutional buildings built between about 1831 and 1940.
As of 2017, New York has 215 state parks and historic sites encompassing 350,000 acres. The agency's portfolio also includes 28 golf courses, 35 swimming pools, 67 beaches, and 18 museums and nature centers. The following sortable tables list current and former New York state parks, respectively, all 'owned' or managed by the OPRHP, as of 2015.
The New-York Historical Society is an American history museum and library in New York City, along Central Park West between 76th and 77th Streets, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The society was founded in 1804 as New York's first museum. It presents exhibitions, public programs, and research that explore the history of New York and the ...
The New York State Register of Historic Places is a listing of "properties significant in history, architecture, engineering, landscape design, archeology, and culture" in the U.S. state of New York. [1] The register was created by the New York State Historic Preservation Act of 1980 and is administered by the State Historic Preservation ...
Como Lake Park is a 534-acre (2.16 km 2) park in Erie County, in the U.S. state of New York. [2] [3] The park is located along the banks of Cayuga Creek in both the village and town of Lancaster, approximately 14 miles (23 km) east of the city of Buffalo. [2] It is operated by the Erie County Department of Parks, Recreation and Forestry.
The Museum of the City of New York ( MCNY) is a history and art museum in Manhattan, New York City, New York. It was founded by Henry Collins Brown, [1] [2] in 1923 [3] to preserve and present the history of New York City, and its people. It is located at 1220–1227 Fifth Avenue between East 103rd to 104th Streets, across from Central Park on ...
The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation acquired the 794-acre (3.21 km 2) Wonder Lake property in November 1998 using Clean Water/Clean Air Bond Act funds. The park was expanded by the purchase of 106 acres (0.4 km 2 ) of open space in February 2006 [5] and it was further expanded in 2010, expanding the park to ...
November 2, 1966. Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site preserves the Ansley Wilcox House, at 641 Delaware Avenue in Buffalo, New York. Here, after the assassination of William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt took the oath of office as President of the United States on September 14, 1901. A New York historical marker outside the ...