Edward A. Diebolt House - Table of Contents

Exterior - Edward A. Diebolt House
62 Niagara Falls Boulevard, Buffalo, NY

Erected:

Ca. 1922-1923.
Pre-1914 original street name Kenilworth (Kenilworth Race Track) in Elysville (named after Leonard Ely, the land owner)

Original owner:

Edward A. Diebolt: Vice-president of the John L.Schwartz Brewery on Bennett Street in Buffalo (the company later became the Iroquois Beverage Company.  Lived in the house until his death in 1937

Style:

Colonial Revival

Design source:

National catalog company Standard Homes, "Esterbrook" model (sold with duplicate blue prints)
Significance:
An intact and representative example of a standardized Colonial Revival style house of the Post World War I era.

Status:

Contributing member of the University Park Historic District






For a modest charge, national catalog companies sold plans that included a complete list of materials required to construct each dwelling. For $20, one could obtain from the Standard Homes Company of Washington, D.C., a set of blue prints with specifications within a day or two for any house in their catalog.  The plans, which were prepared “by architects who devote their entire time to the planning of individual houses,” would come in duplicate, one set for the contractor and one set for the homeowner.  And the company guaranteed that the method of construction would meet the building codes of any city in America. -  Francis R. Kowsky, Edward A. Diebolt House - National Register Nomination
2015 Photos





Note brick road: In 1987, the Buffalo Preservation Board designated the thoroughfare (but not the houses along it) as a local landmark.



Center: Diebolt House



Colonial Revival style ... 2-story gabled roof ... In order to fit the 34-foot-wide Buffalo dwelling onto the 40-foot-lot and have room for a driveway, the builder positioned the Diebolt house with the three-bay façade paralleling the driveway rather than facing the boulevard.



Quarter round windows flank the living room fireplace






Quarter round window




In order to fit the 34-foot-wide Buffalo dwelling onto the 40-foot-lot and have room for a driveway, the builder positioned the Diebolt house with the three-bay façade paralleling the driveway rather than facing the boulevard ... Note front  square columns  (detail below:)



Tuscan square columns

 

Special thanks to current owners Dr. and Mrs. Francis R. Kowsky for their assistance in 2016.

Photos and their arrangement © 2015 Chuck LaChiusa
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