824 Delaware - Table of Contents ........................ Delaware Preservation District)
Exterior - The Forman-Cabana House / Conners Children's Center
824
Delaware Avenue Buffalo, N.Y.
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2003 OWNER |
Child and Family Services: Conners Children's Center, Stanley G. Falk School in carriage house |
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COMPLETED |
1893 |
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ARCHITECTS |
Green & Wicks. E. B. Green, principal designer |
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STYLE |
Renaissance
Revival |
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BUILDING MATERIALS |
Yellow Roman brick, stone |
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STRUCTURAL SYSTEM |
Masonry load bearing walls |
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DEMOLITION ATTEMPT |
In the 1970's, IBM attempted to demolish this building and its neighbors at #830 and #844 |
 1903(?) Photo Note balconet over front entrance and also
the porte-cochere on
the right - both later removed by 2003 (See photos below) Photo source: "Views of Buffalo," Pub. Exclusively for S. H. Knox. Portland, Maine: L. H. Nelson Co. 1903(?)  1931 Photo Illustration source: "Buffalo, the City Beautiful," Hubbell, Mark H., ed. . Buffalo Truth Publishing Co., 1931 Illustration courtesy of Dr. Joseph Bieron  August 1954 Photo Early morning view of east facade of house while it was still ivy-covered Illustration courtesy of Gabriel E. Duffee, OSB  August 1954 Early morning sunlit view of east facade showing porte cochere Illustration courtesy of Gabriel E. Duffee, OSB  August 1954 Early morning view of the east entrance, showing intricate wrought iron grill-work. Note the well-proportioned lighting fixtures flanking the entrance Illustration courtesy of Gabriel E. Duffee, OSB  Aug.1954 North entrance, porte cochere with coffered ceiling Illustration courtesy of Gabriel E. Duffee, OSB  October 1985 Photo View of the east facade Illustration courtesy of Gabriel E. Duffee, OSB  October 1985 Photo A closer view of the portico Illustration courtesy of Gabriel E. Duffee, OSB  Oct. 1985 Sunlit view of the main entrance, showing balconet -- later removed Illustration courtesy of Gabriel E. Duffee, OSB  October 1986 Photo South and east elevations Building to right (north): Mathews House, 830 Delaware Ave. Illustration courtesy of Gabriel E. Duffee, OSB  October 1985 View of the east facade and north elevation - without porte cochere. Illustration courtesy of Gabriel E. Duffee, OSB  October 1985 Facade Illustration courtesy of Gabriel E. Duffee, OSB  October 1985 East half of the carriage housee Illustration courtesy of Gabriel E. Duffee, OSB  October 1985 View of the west side of the house, showing the alcove of the dining room next to the solarium with its arched window treatment Illustration courtesy of Gabriel E. Duffee, OSB |
2003 Photos  2003 photo East elevation facade  2003 photo Front center two-story portico Circular window in tympanum. 2-story, rounded white brick (unusual feature) Ionic columns supporting entablature  2003 photo Entablature: Raking cornice decorated with dentils and modillions. Tympanum has elaborately carved garland, circular window surround, and foliate carving. Ornamental modillions support pediment  2003 photo Bay leaf garland around window Rosettes and modillions support cornice Egg-and-dart molding Dentil molding  2003 photo What is unusual is that the tall circular columns, instead of being made of stone, are constructed of light-colored brick that has been formed in curvilinear shapes. Laurel leaves draped on Ionic capital  2003 photo Coffered ceiling  2003 photo Round arched front entrance has paired fluted Ionic pilasters flanking double glass paneled door with ornamental wrought iron grill work. Semicircular transom with keystone above in the surround.  2003 photo Fluted Ionic pilasters  2003 photo Two and a half story Greek Revival Style house. Entrances front, side. Metal hip roof. Monumental pedimented portico. Building at right: Mathews House, 830 Delaware Ave.  2003 photo Carriage entrance on right side (north) of house: Originally, there was a porte-cochere  2003 photo Above the carriage entrance: Entablature window heads with banded bay leaf molding in frieze. Keystones in round arches Festoons  2003 photo Window to the left of the carriage entrance. Terra cotta surround: Pediment with dentils Fluted Ionic pilasters  2003 photo Pediment (triangle) with raking cornice has dentil course and an brick tympanum in the center. Fluted Ionic pilasters on either side of light (window). |
 May 2011 photo |
Related buildings  1931 photo of Cabana summer home Illustration
source: "Buffalo, the City Beautiful," Hubbell, Mark
H., ed. . Buffalo Truth Publishing Co., 1931  2007 Photo Georgia M. G. Forman House, 77 Oakland Place (George V. Forman's daughter-in-law) In 1952 owned by the Roman Catholic diocese of Buffalo for the bishop's house |
Text sources:
- 1999 Preservation Coalition tour: Greg Lodinsky, tour guide
- Buffalo's Delaware Avenue: Mansions and Families, by Edward T. Dunn. Pub. by Canisius College Press, 2003
