(Ithaca, N.Y.) –Trowbridge & Wolf Landscape Architects (TWLA), in partnership with The Urban Design Project at the University of Buffalo, has been selected to receive an award from the Preservation League of New York State during the League’s Excellence in Historic Preservation event in New York City on May 13 in New York City.

The award is being given for The Olmsted City – The Buffalo Olmsted Park System:  Plan for the 21st Century, a restoration plan for the Buffalo Olmsted Park System. The plan outlines a restoration plan for every major park and parkway in the Buffalo Olmsted Park and Parkway System in Buffalo, N.Y.  The system includes six major parks and a series of smaller parks, linked by broad, tree-line parkways. It comprises approximately 60 percent of the parkland in the City of Buffalo.

“It (the Plan for the 21st Century document) is a handsome and most useful document that celebrates a treasured resource, Olmsted’s great city-wide park system,” said Jay DiLorenzo, president of the Preservation League of New York State.  “This is a model planning document, and I am pleased that it will receive statewide recognition.”

The full report can be found on the web at: http://urbandesignproject.ap.buffalo.edu/projects/olmsted/Plan.html

 The Buffalo Olmsted Park System is a unique cultural landscape designed by renowned landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted and architect Calvert Vaux in the mid- to late- 1800’s. Olmsted and Vaux designed numerous parks throughout the nation, including New York City’s Central Park. Their design for Buffalo provided the first connected system of parks and parkways in America and still is remarkably intact. The Buffalo Olmsted Park System was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

TWLA has worked extensively on many historic Olmsted landscapes, including Highland Park in Rochester, NY; South Park in Buffalo, NY; and Niagara Falls State Park. Currently, the firm is working on a historic landscape management plan for the Niagara Reservation State Park in Niagara Falls, N.Y. Olmsted drew up the original plans for the Niagara Reservation.