page_title: Entranceways at Main Street at Lamarck Drive and Smallwood Drive
section_title: Smallwood Drive
hierarchical_section_title: Entranceways at Main Street at Lamarck Drive and Smallwood Drive / Architecture / Smallwood Drive
caption_attribution_description: English: w:Entranceways at Main Street at Lamarck Drive and Smallwood Drive from south
context_page_description: 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 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.
context_section_description: Both of the Smallwood Drive groupings of stones on the north side of Main Street have dominant octagonal gatehouses built upon four pairs of stained heavy timber columns supported by quarry-faced random ashlar half-walls on cut stone chamfered bases.  The bases flank Smallwood Drive's concrete parallel sidewalks run along through the centerline of the gatehouses. The Main Street sidewalk passes in front of the gatehouses.  The columns are braced with heavy timber lintel on open sides supported by pegged heavy timber brackets that form a lancet-head arch.  The structures are topped by steeply-pitched and flared standing seam copper roofs that have weathervanes that are located nearly two stories above the street land grading and that depict flying birds.
  The Smallwood Drive gatehouse sides have tall and slightly tapered have quarry-faced random ashlar stone posts with chamfered corners on stone bases.  These posts support flat cast capitals beneath wrought iron balustrades with filigreed corners.  The structures still host original hexagonal metal and glass light fixtures that hang from metal brackets on the Smallwood Drive post faces.  The pair of groupings has Tudor Revival architectural influences.
caption: View from south of Main Street
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