Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural

National Historic Site

WALKING TOURS

There are three different walking tours offered through the Site. A guided tour is available for groups of six or more who make reservations at least three weeks in advance.

• Allentown: A National Preservation District that includes homes, churches and other structures dating from the early 19th century to the early 20th century. Architecturally, Allentown is the most eclectic area in the city with styles ranging from Federal (1814) to Colonial Revival (1926) and everything in between. The tour covers three miles and takes about two hours at a good pace. Allentown is also home to many restaurants, antique and specialty shops housed in the old homes.



• Delaware Avenue: Once known as "Millionaire's Row," Delaware Avenue was the place to live in Buffalo at the turn of the twentieth century. Elegant mansions lined both sides of "the Avenue" while stately elm trees formed a canopy over it. Unfortunately, all of the trees and most of the mansions are gone now except for a few blocks north of the Site where the grandeur is still present. The tour covers one and a half to two miles (including several side streets) and takes about an hour and a half to complete.
  


• Downtown Buffalo: One of two tours that does not begin at the Site. This tour begins about a mile south of the Site at the Lafayette Square Soldiers and Sailors Monument in the center of downtown. The focus of this tour is the growth and development of Buffalo from a small village to world renown city, from the industrial decline of the mid-20th century, to the revitalization of the 1980's. Allow about two to three hours.
  

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