Williams-Butler
House
- Table of Contents
MISC.
ROOMS -
Williams-Butler House
/ Jacobs Executive Development Center
672
Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY
On this page, below:
Music room
Breakfast room
Bedrooms
Basement
2003 Photos
Music
room Music room ... Rococo reception/music room across from the library ... Probably too small to be a music room, yet so called because of the music ornamentation over the mirror. Music room ... Gold leafing on the cove plaster. Music room ... Music room ... Marble fireplace: Acanthus leaves and beads on cornice ... Bead-and-reel molding ... Fluted Greek Ionic column Music room ... Fireback (Speculation: Helpers for Hephaestus, the Greek god of blacksmiths, metalworking, carpenters, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors, metallurgy, fire, and volcanoes. Hephaestus' Roman counterpart is Vulcan. ) ... Top of brass andirons |
Breakfast room |
Bedrooms Woman's bedroom ... Frieze: Ribbons ... Bellflowers ... Anthemia ... Pilasters flank decorative panel Woman's bedroom ... Fireplace with Classical ornamentation bordering the marble surround ... Andirons Woman's bedroom ... Mantle: Beads and acanthus leaves Frieze: Wreaths and bellflower ... Anthemia and patera Right leg: Patera, Classical face, foliage including anthemion Woman's bedroom ... Bathroom plaster ceiling |
Man's bedroom ... Detail below: Man's bedroom .... Crown molding entablature: Acanthus leaves on cornice ... Egg-and-dart ... Rosettes/paterae ... Reeding Man's bedroom ... Greek key design in door surround ... Veneered door |
Basement Delft tiled fireplace ... Detail below: |