Knox House - Table of Contents

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Grace Millard Knox House / Montefiore Club / Computer Task Group / Cellino Law
800 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, N.Y.

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Vestibule

Foyer

Music Room

Library

Drawing room

Rotunda

Dining room

Photos taken on May 5, 2021

Vestibule Vestibule    ...    View from foyer toward north side glass and wrought iron main entrance Vestibule    ...    Plaster coffering featuring rosettes and egg-and-dart

Foyer Foyer    ...    Originally, there were six 17th-century tapestries on the walls along the stairway. The tapestries were eventually sold at an auction by Christies in New York City, Foyer    ...    The 23 by 30-foot foyer is paneled in polished beige Vermont marble     ...    There is curved marble along the staircase and a bronze balustrade and polished bronze handrail Foyer    ...    The floor is Vermont rose gray marble, as are the pilasters    ...    Foyer Foyer   ...   Skylight at top of stairway Foyer    ...   Balustrades, detailed below    ...    French Baroque table Foyer    ...    Balustrade Foyer    ...    French Baroque table    ...    Cabriole legs    ...     Ormolu    Foyer    ...     Modillions and rosettes    ...    Egg-and-dart    ...   Leaf-and-dart    ...    Corinthian  pilasters Foyer    ...    Sconce

Music Room View of the music room from the foyer    ...   Fanlight    ...   Marble  Corinthian  pilasters Music Room    ...    Adam style architectural design, after the Scottish 18th century architect Robert Adam. Inspired by the discoveries of Pompeii and Herculaneum, Adam adapted classical motifs and led the classical revival in England for both architecture and interior decoration   ...     Computer Task Group is to be lauded for leaving the Adam style ceiling, walls and floors intact    ...   Antique furniture is not original    ...    Room details below: Music Room    ...   Looking out to Delaware Avenue and Millionaires' Row    ...    Fanlight window above French doors Music Room    ...    Adam style    ...     Elaborate plasterwork, including a magnificent ceiling oval, detailed below: Music Room    ...  Ceiling plasterwork   ...     Chandelier    ...     Fanlight Music Room    ...    Adam style Music Room    ...    Chandelier    ...     Fanlight Music Room     ...    Adam style    ...    Dentil molding   ...    Frieze features scrolling acanthus plants and Classical scene   ...    Fanlight Music Room    ...    Adam style    ...   Dentil molding   ...   Guilloche    ...    Frieze features scrolling acanthus plants and Classical scene    ... Plaster  Corinthian capital  Music Room Music Room    ...   Gilded mirror frame Music Room    ...   Marble fireplace and hearth    ...    Fender Music Room    ...    Fireplace    ...    Carved frieze    ...    Rosettes and flutes    ...    Gray surround Music Room     ...    Marble fireplace frieze with Adamesque  urn Music Room    ...    Fireplace    ...    Fender    ...    hearth Music Room    ...    Sconce inset with Wedgwood porcelain reliefs Music Room    ...    Gilded French Baroque table    ...    Cabriole legs    ...     Stretcher Music Room    ...    Gilded French Baroque table    ...    Oval Classical scene with ribbons and bellflowers Music Room    ...    Gilded French Baroque table Music Room    ...   Adamesque/Neoclassical sideboard Music Room    ...    Adamesque/Neoclassical sideboard left panel    ...   Side ancone   ...  Claw foot    ...     Swag    ...   Pendant bellflowers    ...    Woman playing a lyre Music Room   ...   Adamesque/Neoclassical sideboard middle panel    ...    Top  Woman playing a horn Music Room    ...   Adamesque/Neoclassical sideboard right panel    ...    Woman dancing    ...    Acanthus leaf on side Music Room    ...   Adamesque/Neoclassical sideboard side panel

Library Library    ...    Walnut paneling Library    ...    Transom windows    ...    French doors open to balconet Library    ...    Ceiling plaster decoration    ...   Fanlight Library    ...    Fanlight Library    ...    The walnut-paneled library contains a magnificent fireplace, in early Italian Renaissance style with an unpolished travertine marble mantel     ...    Of the 12 fireplaces, this is one of the mansion's most spectacular. Library    ...    Fireplace    ...    The bas-relief on the frieze is also typical Italian Renaissance Library    ...    Candelabra Library    ...    Fireplace    ...    Andiron Library    ...    Fireplace    ...    Egg-and-dart molding under mantel Library    ...    Fireplace    ...    Roman urn Library    ...    Andiron Library    ...    Walnut-paneled

Drawing room Drawing room    ...   Fanlight Drawing room    ...   Early 18th-century, Georgian-style drawing room    ...     In order to maintain the integrity of the room's original design, Computer task Group, when they owned the building, installed glass and wood modular office units and left the walls untouched    ...    Chandelier    ...     Drawing room    ...   Plaster medallion Drawing room    ...   Chandelier Drawing room    ...    Fireplace with a white Carrara marble mantel Drawing room    ...    Modillions    ...    Rosettes    ...    Egg-and-dart    ...    Corinthian capital    ...    Broken pediment    ...    Festoon (swag) Drawing room    ...   Corinthian capital    ...   Fluted pilaster shaft Drawing room    ...   Fireplace  Drawing room    ...   Fireplace    ...   Egg-and-dart    ...   Beed-and-reel    ...    Roman urn Drawing room    ...   Fireplace    ...   Cornucopia and shell Drawing room    ...   Fireplace    ...   Andiron   Drawing room    ...   Chandelier Drawing room    ...   Sconce   Drawing room    ...   Plaster rosettes and shells Drawing room    ...   Sconce

Rotunda Rotunda    ...   Chandelier  Rotunda    ...   There are six varieties of marble in this room, some American, some imported. They include Vermont rose, putty green, American brown and strawberry , dusty rose, and gray Carrara. Rotunda    ...   Marble abacus and Tuscan capital   Rotunda    ...   Marble  smooth column shaft Rotunda    ...   Domed ceiling painted in Neo-classical design     ...   Alabaster light fixture Rotunda Rotunda     ...    Detailed below: Rotunda Rotunda    ...    Note cow heads (bucranes) Rotunda    ...   Grotesques, detailed below: Rotunda    ...   Grotesques Rotunda    ...   Bellflowers above and below faces    ...    Panel: architecture tools Rotunda    ...   Marble  floor and pilasters Rotunda historic photo Rotunda Rotunda    ...   Tiffany-style stained glass peacock was once lit from the outside by natural light Rotunda    ...   Marble fountain detail    ...   Neptune?    ...     Shell    ...     Dolphins Rotunda    ...   Marble fountain detail  Rotunda    ...   Marble fountain detail    ...   Note trident, perhaps indicating that the face on the fountain is that of  Neptune   ...    Stalactites

Dining room Dining room historic photo Dining room    ...    Note floor boards, exposed after carpeting was removed in preparation for the Decorators' Show House Dining room    ...    Fanlight Dining room    ...    Note egg-and-darts and dentils and acanthus leaves Dining room    ...    Leaf-and-dart    ...   Bead-and-reel    ...   Egg-and-dart    ...      Dentils    ...    Scrolling acanthus leaves Dining room    ...    Large acanthus leaf, detailed below: Dining room Dining room    ...    Neoclassical  marble fireplace   Dining room    ...    Neoclassical  marble fireplace    ...   Entablature    ...     Festooned ancones    ...   Pendant bellflowers    ...    Baroque andiron Dining room    ...    Neoclassical  marble fireplace Dining room    ...    Neoclassical  marble fireplace    ...    Bead-and-reel    ...   Egg-and-dart    ...     Acanthus leaf    ...      bellflowers    ...   Swag    ...   Paneled scrolling acanthus leaves Dining room    ...    Neoclassical  marble fireplace    ...   Nike? Dining room    ...    Neoclassical  marble fireplace    ...   Paneled scrolling acanthus leaves Dining room    ...    Neoclassical  marble fireplace    ...   Pendant bellflowers Dining room    ...    Sconce    ...    Gadroons Return to top

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