Heiser House - Table of Contents
2013 photographs
Exterior - Heiser House
4558 South Park St., corner of Big Tree, Hamburg, NY
Offices of Baer & Associates, LLC
| Built: |
1901-03 |
| Architect: |
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| Style: |
Queen Anne |
| Building history: |
Built by William and Mary Heiser and was the home of their daughter, Laura, and her husband, Spencer Trask, until 1947. In 1943, two Episcopalian nuns, Sr. Pattie Ellis and Sr. Gwendolyn Morgan, founded the Community of the Way of the Cross; in 1947, they purchased the Heiser home, calling it the St. David House It was painted white, maroon, and dark green and contained a chapel in the main room on the first floor. In 1991, Richard and Karen Penfold restored the building to its 1903 design. |
  Queen Anne feature: differing wall textures, including Medina sandstone and patterned wood shingles  Palladian window in attic gable.  Note leaded windows and shoulders in window surrounds  Queen Anne brackets and fluted Tuscan column  Front entrance |
  Barn donated to the nuns (see history of building above) 
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 Donated barn ... Cottage built by nuns for the visiting priest   Board and batten siding  Board and batten siding in gable ... Concrete blocks  |
