Chilton Avenue-Orchard Parkway Historic District

Chilton Avenue and Orchard Parkway are two east-west residential streets in northern Niagara Falls, New York, running between Whirlpool Street and Main Street. Together they form a district of 103 contributing and 36 noncontributing buildings, built mostly between about 1899 and 1941. Chilton Avenue, developed first, features Queen Anne, Craftsman and Colonial-style houses beneath a canopy of large trees. Orchard Parkway, built up mainly in the 1920s and 1930s, is defined by a grassy median created in 1920 and by interwar house designs. The land was once part of the farm of General Parkhurst Whitney, later inherited by his son-in-law James Fullerton Trott, and the streets began as private roads through an apple orchard. The neighborhood is significant because it remains one of the city's few contiguous, well-preserved residential areas from its early twentieth-century boom, standing in contrast to nearby streets marked by demolition and decay.