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1868-1898Olmsted & VauxPark & Parkway

System

Frederick Law Olmsted

Calvert Vaux

Louis J. Bennett1833-1925

To Buffalo in 1866 from Fultonville,NY, in the Mohawk Valley.

Spaulding & Bennett built ironbridges.

Founded Buffalo Cement Co.

Developed Central Park.

Donated land for Bennett H.S. west ofBuffalo Cement Co. quarry.

Louis J. Bennett

Louis J. Bennett

Otowega Club, Starin &Linden (demolished 1940s)

Burke’s Green.Across the street

from Bennett’shome.

Belt Line Railroad

• 1896•

Belt Line Railroad Bennett Station at 10 Starin at Amherst St.

Depew AvenueNamesake

Yale, 1856

US Senator

President of NY Central Rail

Bennett’s co, built ironbridges for NY Central

Bennett and Depew activemembers of the RepublicanParty

NY State Secretary of State Nephew was Ganson Depew,Buffalo

Chauncey M. Depew1834-1928

William H. Bayliss House360 Depew Avenue

1935 … Tudor Revival … On the Louis J. Bennett House site

William H. Bayliss House360 Depew Avenue

Terra cotta chimney pots … Slate roof

William H. Bayliss House

Half-timbering with basket weavebrick bond …

Label molding with stops …String course …

Balconette

William H. Bayliss House360 Depew Avenue

Half-timbering with stucco … Copper roof

ShakespeareHouse,

England

William H. Bayliss House

Ogee arch (Tudor) over diamond-shape leaded glass

Edward J. Barcalo House371 Depew Avenue

1907 …Founder of Barcalo

Co. …Green & Wicks …

Arts & Crafts/Colonial Revival

Edward J. Barcalo House371 Depew Avenue

Portico …Entablature …Tuscan columns

Edward J. Barcalo House371 Depew Avenue

Craftsman brackets … Colonial Revival fanlight and leaded glass

Edward J. Barcalo House371 Depew Avenue

Arts & Crafts knee brace brackets … Onondaga limestone

Edward J. Barcalo House371 Depew Avenue

Rafter tails

Irvine J. Kittinger House226 Depew Avenue

1927 … Georgian Revival

Irvine J. Kittinger House226 Depew Avenue

Irvine joined the Colie & Son furniture manufacturers in 1904 …1913 Irvine and brother Ralph buy the co. President & V-P.

Irvine J. KittingerHouse

Portico: Broken pedimentsupported by blockmodillions…Engaged columns flankentrance…Transom light…Side lights

Irvine J. Kittinger House

Slate roof … Dormer: broken pediment, keystone, fanlight, pilasters

Irvine J. Kittinger House

Flemish bond …Keystone … Voussoirs …8 over 12 lights

Ralph G. Kittinger House234 Depew Avenue

1920 … Georgian Revival

Ralph G. Kittinger House

Modillions

French doors

Round columns andpilasters

Transom and side lights

Ralph G. Kittinger House

Block modillions … Gouged dentils

Ralph G. Kittinger House

Leaded glass (etched) fanlight

Ralph G. Kittinger House

Keystone …Brick voussoirs …

Fanlight …French doors

James B. Craven House278 Depew Avenue

1894 … John Coxhead, architect … Colonial Revival …1927-84 Charles Bassett, Vice-President of the Buffalo Meter Co.

(Bethune Hall)

James B. Craven House278 Depew Avenue

Ribbon dormer windows … Modillions … Ionic columns

James B. Craven House278 Depew Avenue

Slate roof …Dentil molding …Tuscan pilasters

James B. Craven House

Ionic columns … Medina sandstone

James B. Craven Hous

Medina sandstone capitals with acanthus leaves ornamentation

310 Depew Avenue

1912 … Colonial Revival / Craftsman

310 Depew Avenue

Craftsman /Arts & Crafts: Widely overhanging eaves supported byrafter tails … Onondaga limestone pillars … Leaded side lights

310 Depew Avenue

Rafter tails … Roman Doric columns

310 Depew Avenue

Onondaga limestone …Broken rangework masonry

(horizontal courses of differentheights) ,,,Rafter tails

310 Depew Avenue

Porte-cochere

67 Beard Ave.1910

Queen Anne style

Note: Conical roofs,columns

67 Beard Avenue

Note: Porch crawl space,columns

67 Beard Ave.

Gable roof…

Triangularpediment

…Plaster(?)tympanum

…Sleeping porch

67 Beard Avenue

Sunburst spandrel panel…

Oriel supported by corbel

67 Beard Avenue

Two terra cotta chimney caps…

Conical roof…

Tower with two different woodenshingles

Central Park United Methodist Church16 Beard Avenue

1921-23 … Chas. Bolton & Son, architect … English Gothic style

Central Park United Methodist Church

Crenelated tower is a feature of English Gothic churches

Central Park UnitedMethodist Church

Pinnacles topped by finials

Central Park United Methodist Church

Paired bays

214 Morris AvenueFormerly the Church’s parsonage. One of the few doubles in CP.

Morris Avenue is named after Bennett’s brother-in-law’s family.John Vedder Morris married Bennett’s younger sister, Maria. Twoof John’s sisters were married to prominent Buffalo businessmen.

214 Morris Avenue

1910 … Queen Anne/Colonial

214 Morris Avenue

Porte-cochere … Rounded bay with decorative brick work

214 Morris Avenue

Queen Anne decorative brick work

214 Morris Avenue

Fluted (Greek) Ionic columns …Onondaga limestone foundation

82 Morris Avenue

1920 … Eclectic: Tudor Revival/Colonial Revival

82 Morris Avenue

Eyebrow attic dormer with fanlight … Modillion brackets

82 Morris Avenue

Second story leaded (“came”) tripart window

82 Morris Avenue

Tudor Revival arch plank door and surround flanked by a Gibbssurround (James Gibbs: 1682-1754) … Side lights

82 Morris Avenue

Colonial Revival/Federalparapet

And …

The end.

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