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96 NIAGAAA BOULEVARD
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Written by Eugene Montillon son of George& Abbie. _ .
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spring of 1900 we moved from West Avenue in Buffalo and fr6m
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96. Niagara Boulevard.was a property of about 3 acres, 180 foot front"·
... age, and .500 to 600 feet deep. A.' large brick frame house stood about 100: .
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he>use was. a barn~ lhere were ~several large old trees and huge Tilac ' . ·
_bushes iri front of. the house. To the east across the Niagara. River, a ·
\,_··i" half._mile away was, .still is, the U.S.A. and the City of. Buffalo. Othf:!r"'
wise,ithe ·property was open fields. The rear of the property was bounded
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the; west was farm land.
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This section of Niagara Boulevard was known as Quality Row • .For
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next to ·us,. the Walter Curtis family, .also Americans. Mr. Curtis owned . "":
the farm land to the west of our pro.perty. Then came th·~·::Gr,ahams, ~hen· ·. ·
thecMi.ss Hersheys, two middle aged maiden ladies. Jack Mann, a nephew.
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.··.actiV'ities ... Next north was a property, 80 Niagara Boulevard, which
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't >:'/~ ,1 -my s1ster and her husband, Jack F1tzG1bbon. Then came the Charles Lewis· .\
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E~sr::;~~:{J·d1~)~fe!1 family. Qua.Uty Row ~xtended for about a .quarter _of a mile aJ(>ng ·
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The Niagara Boulevard .home.was my father's opportunity to indulge his
; and\ lands cape: dev~ l opment hobby. Al so he saw the fruits of.=his ·
'lived on this -property<for f9rty year~..
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: father~s-· lffe.time, v they g~ew{ ~o be -large _trees;-/ o,ne of them in particular ,,
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as peononi es and phlox. I~e enti~e composi .t i on ! was c~rvel i ni an in si l hou ..
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Ube~ty Hyde Bailey, Professor of Horticulture, Cornell University,
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, q_arn in ·a~r area of at least a half acre, ·fathel".' pl~nted an orchard and a
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_·~,in .,t~e ~ !llorni'ng, worke~. in ', the .g·a rden for an hour or more,1 had breakfast, ~
:·.went '..to Buffalo and was at his offi te at nine ·o'clock or soon after. I
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