Your patronage directly supports architectural preservation in Erie County. We are developing new tours and tweaking existing ones every year. New this year, for example, the Canal District, Chapin Parkway, Pan Am, Parkside, and three bike cruises. Some tours we offer every year, others we rotate on a two or three year basis. All tour proceeds and other contributions go toward furthering the goals of the Preservation Coalition, chartered as a non-profit organization by the New York State Dept. of Education.
Members get discounts on all tours.
We will train you. Over the years, Humboldt parkway, the widest, broadest and longest of the parkways, has suffered the most destruction and change. The proposal to restore a section of the the parkway by constructing a tunnel from East Ferry to Best Street, as outlined in The News article, is a good starting point leading to the restoration of Olmsted's necklace of parks designed in the 1870s. In conjunction with the tunnel proposal, the Preservation Coalition feels that a number of developments in the surrounding area hold great potential, both as preservation and community development initiatives. The former Diocesan Preparatory Center on Dodge Street and the former Masten Park Secured Center on Best Street are empty and awaiting reuse.