Main St., jct. with Roycroft Blvd., Amherst, New York. County/parish: Erie.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places December 07, 2005. NRIS 05001378.
Part of Suburban Development of Buffalo, New York MPS (NRIS 64500937).
1 contributing structure.
Entranceway at Main Street at Roycroft Boulevard is a suburban residential subdivision entranceway built in 1918. It is on Main Street (New York State Route 5) in the hamlet of Snyder, New York, in the town of Amherst within Erie County. The entranceway is a marker that represents the American suburbanization of rural areas, suburbanization that occurred through transportation-related land development on the edges of urban areas. It consists of a variety of half-height wall formations, featuring a semicircular wall on the Roycroft Boulevard median's intersection with Main Street. The entranceway was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 7, 2005.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75312791