The Grider Street entrance of the Buffalo City Hospital, a horticultural showplace. Photo courtesy of The Buffalo News. 23 During the 1930s, the hospital created a magnificent series of gardens, lakes, and lagoons including a 70-acre arboretum with a water garden and a lily pond surrounded by a profusion of plants and flowers for the enjoyment of its patients. Buffalo City Hospital 1918-1939 A HOSPITAL AND A HORTICULTURAL SHOWPLACE