Amherst Street Station sits at Central Park's southeastern corner.The neighborhood originated from a development conceived by cement magnate Lewis Jackson Bennett (1833–1925) on his Buffalo Cement Company property.
[1][2] His Central Park home was designed by Buffalo architect Milton Earl Beebe.
[2] Bennett bought land in North Buffalo for a limestone source needed to establish a cement factory.
Starting in 1875 he also acquired land on the east and west sides of Main Street where there were cement deposits.
Ten years later he planned a residential subdivision on the company's lands with his son, Leslie Jay Bennett, and William Pierce, a co-owner of Buffalo Cement.