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Caption: Residence of E. S. Dann,
southwest corner of Delaware and Utica Street. ----------------- George B. Webster House. "The Romantic
tradition that brought into being evocative
landscape such as that of Forest
Lawn was also responsible for the Gothic
Revival, an architectural movement that was
well-represented on Delaware Avenue . In 1848 Richard
Upjohn was invited to Buffalo to design St.
Paul's Episcopal Church,
a building he is said to have regarded as his best
work. As a result of
his work at St. Paul's, the famous New York
architect was asked by
George B. Webster, a local insurance agent and
one of the members
of the vestry, to design a house for him on Delaware
Avenue. The brick
villa (located on the southwest corner of Delaware
and Utica) was a
fine example of Gothic Revival domestic architecture
that included
decorative verge
boards and tall gables."
- The Grand
American Avenue 1850-1920, "Delaware
Avenue," by Francis
R. Kowsky, p. 41
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