- City:
- Buffalo, NY
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation, Zoos
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Designer:
- John Edmonston Brent
Description
“Buffalo Zoo Entrance Court – funded by the federal Works Progress Administration (WPA), the entry court and gates (1935-38) are the most intact surviving work of John Edmonston Brent, one of few African Americans practicing as both an architect and a landscape architect in the early twentieth century.”
Source notes
https://www.longislandexchange.com/press/2013/03/22/state-board-recommends-27-nominations-for-state-and-national-registers-of-historic-places/Site originally submitted by Susan Ives on April 9, 2013.
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