Main St. at Lamarck Dr. and Smallwood Dr., Amherst, New York. County/parish: Erie.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places December 07, 2005. NRIS 05001379.
Part of Suburban Development of Buffalo, New York MPS (NRIS 64500937).
2 contributing structures.
Entranceways at Main Street at Lamarck Drive and Smallwood Drive are a set of complementary residential subdivision stone entranceways built in 1926. They are located on Main Street (New York State Route 5) in the hamlet of Snyder, New York within the town of Amherst, which is located in Erie County. These entranceways are markers representing the American suburbanization of rural areas through land development associated with transportation on the edges of urban developments. The Smallwood entranceway is a pair of symmetric groupings of stone gatehouses and posts flanking the two sides of the drive at Main Street. The Lamarck entranceway is a pair of Y-shaped and U-shaped stone half-walls flanking the two sides of the drive at Main Street. The entranceways were added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 7, 2005.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75312793