Discover Buffalo #1: Symphony Circle Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 11/17/2015
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

The first in a series of caches meant to encourage the exploration of the City of Buffalo. This micro cache will bring you to historic Symphony Circle in Allentown. There is room for nothing but the log (BYOP). Please hide the cache as well or better than you found it.

Symphony Circle is a 4.5-acre traffic circle located within the Allentown Historic Dictrict with a rich history. Due south of the circle lies First Presbyterian Church, Buffalo's oldest congregation. Kleinhans Music Hall is located on the southwest side of the circle; it was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1989.

Symphony Circle was originally named The Circle by Buffalo Park System designers Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in 1868. They redesigned The Circle in 1874 to serve as a vital link of green space between Front Park and Porter Avenue. From the Circle, the west Buffalo parkway design continued down Richmond Avenue to Bidwell Parkway, then to Lincoln Parkway, and finally terminated at Delaware Park.

Much of The Circle was developed over the former Black Rock Cemetery, especially the northwest quadrant. The remains of Buffalonians buried there were re-interred in Forest Lawn Cemetery, but some of the pauper graves still remain.

The Circle's finishing touch came in 1879 when an ornate 5 light gas standard was erected in the center of a circular flower bed island approximately 25-30 feet in diameter. In the 1890s the Circle became a finish line for spirited winter (sleigh) races running down Richmond Avenue south from West Ferry Street.

From the earliest days of the Circle this site was home to a greenhouse and some dwellings of modest size until the early 1890s. At that time, Truman Avery purchased all the grounds bordering this quadrant (3.5 acres) and built a palatial mansion.

In 1938, when the City of Buffalo was searching for a site for the new music hall to be erected as a memorial to retailer Edward L. Kleinhans' mother and wife, heirs to the estate of Mrs. Truman Avery offered the mansion to the City for a nominal sum.

The Circle was renamed Symphony Circle in 1958 because of its association with Kleinhans Music Hall and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.

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