DelawareDelaware AvenueAvenue BetweenBetween NorthNorth andand TupperTupper StreetsStreets ©© 20132013 ChuckChuck LaLa ChiusaChiusa BuffaloAH.com Wilcox Mansison / Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site 641 Delaware Avenue Greek Revival/Colonial Revival … Palladian window not Greek … Rounded entrance not Greek … Windows Greek Wilcox Mansison / Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site Buffalo or Poinsett Barracks built 1838-40 … Largest military installation at the time Barracks replaced by Fort Porter Wilcox Mansison / Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site Wilcox Mansion / Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site Tuscan column Wilcox Mansion / Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site Palladian window not Greek Vars Wilcox Mansion / Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site Leaded glass fanlight Colonial Revival … Broken triangular pediment … Engaged Tuscan columns Twentieth Century Club 595 Delaware Avenue Delaware Avenue Baptist Church Land part of Buffalo barracks … 1882 … Sold to Twentieth Century Club eleven years later … Modified by Green & Wicks Twentieth Century Club Cartouche Sconce Twentieth Century Club Italian Renaissance Revival loggia Twentieth Century Club Italian Renaissance Revival loggia: Tuscan columns Twentieth Century Club Modillions with acanthus leaves … Egg-and-dart molding … Dentils Clarence L. Bryant House 591 Delaware Avenue 1889 … 1996 fire Clarence L. Bryant House 1899 … Esenwein & Johnson, architect … Colonial Revival … Bryant founder of Bryant & Stratton Business College … TRM Architect purchased building at auction in 2001 Clarence L. Bryant House Colonial Revival … Stone window crown with stops and keystone over leaded glass transom and side lights Clarence L. Bryant House Roman Corinthian columns: Fleurons (flowers) … Spiral volutes … Two rows of acanthus leaves Clarence l. Bryant House Limestone lintels and sills … 6 over 6 lights … Roman Corinthian columns … Water table Chillion M. Farrar House (Knights of Columbus Building) 506 Delaware Avenue C. 1870 … Second Empire style … Mansard roof … Progressively shorter stories Chillion M. Farrar House (Knights of Columbus Building) Chillion M. Farrar - Perot Malt House in Silo City Chillion M. Farrar Perot Malt House boiler room Chillion M. Farrar House: Second Empire style Napoleon III … Ruled 1852-1870 ... Neo-Baroque style Chillion M. Farrar House (Knights of Columbus Building) Straight Mansard roof with slate shingles … Rounded, pedimented dormer windows Chillion M. Farrar House (Knights of Columbus Building) Modillions supporting balconet … Cartouche … Greek fluted Ionic columns S. Douglas Cornell Demolished in late 1880s Midway Row Houses 471-499 Delaware Ave. 1889-1895 … “Midway” between Niagara Square and Forest lawn Cemetery S. Douglas Cornell House 1894 … Edward Kent, architect … French Renaissance Revival S. Douglas Cornell House Conical roof … Final atop rounded pediment … Cartouche William Dorsheimer House 434 Delaware Avenue 1869-71 … H. H. Richardson, architect … Louis XIII style William Dorsheimer House: Louis XIII style in Paris suburb William Dorsheimer House Straight mansard roof Charles F. Sternberg House / The Mansion on Delaware Avenue 414 Delaware Avenue 1869-70 … George M. Allison, architect … Second Empire style … Victor Hugo Wine Cellar … Charles F. Sternberg House / The Mansion on Delaware Avenue Quoins … Iron cresting … Iron Corinthian columns Charles F. Sternberg House / The Mansion on Delaware Avenue Convex mansard roof … Through-the-cornice dormer … Pedimented dormer Trinity Episcopal Church 389 Delaware Avenue 1886 … Cyrus K. Porter, architect … Gothic Revival … Pinnacles … Stained glass windows by John LaFarge and Louis Comfort Tiffany Trinity Episcopal Church The Sealing of the Twelve Tribes: Opalescent stained glass window by John LaFarge Trinity Episcopal Church Vars Resurrection: Opalescent stained glass window by John LaFarge Vars Vars Trinity Episcopal Church St. Cecilia: Opalescent stained glass window by Louis Comfort Tiffany 388 Delaware Watson House / Buffalo Club Avenue 1870… Second Empire Vars Stephen Van Rensselaer Watson: Founder, Buffalo Savings Bank Watson House / Buffalo Club Straight mansard roof Watson House / Buffalo Club Second floor window hoodmold … Bay … Engaged columns Addison Vars Building 344 Delaware Avenue a 1929 … Bley & Lyman, architect … Art Deco style Vars Mausoleum 344 Delaware Avenue Forest Lawn Mausoleum … Includes Addison’s father Harry T. Vars who died in 1926 in Japan on tour of the world Vars Building a Reeding … Art Deco numerals … Stylized fountain … Bas-relief sculpture Vars Building Vars Building a Bas-relief sculpture …Chevrons … Reeding Vars Building Vars Building a Volutes Vars Building a Chevrons … Reeding Vars Building Vars Building a Asbury Delaware Ave. Vars Methodist Church / Babeville 339 Delaware Avenue 1876 … Gothic Revival … John Selkirk, architect Vars Asbury Delaware Ave. Methodist Church / Babeville Gothic Revival entrance features engaged columns and multifoil ornament … Medina sandstone … String course Asbury Delaware Ave. Methodist Church / Babeville The former church sanctuary turned into a performance space and banquet hall. Stained glass windows were repaired. Asbury Delaware Ave. Methodist Church / Babeville Hammer beam ceiling … Pendants … Gallery … Geometric stained glass windows Vars Asbury Delaware Ave. Methodist Church / Babeville Windows by Booth & Reister Asbury Delaware Ave. Methodist Church / Babeville Detail - Organ loft geometric stained glass window by Booth & Reister And … The end. Questions? Comments?.