Knox House - Table of Contents
SECOND
FLOOR and BALLROOM
Grace Millard Knox House / Montefiore Club / Computer
Task Group / Cellino Law
800 Delaware
Avenue, Buffalo, N.Y.
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Table of Contents The Buffalo News - Official Website The Junior League of Buffalo / The Buffalo News 2021 Decorators’ Show House In 2020, the Knox House was purchased by Cellino Law for its Buffalo headquarters. The photos below were taken on May 5, 2021 with permission of the Junior League. Subsequently, professional decorators would decorate each room in the house and the house would be open to the public for touring. Profits would be donated by the Junior League to deserving organizations throughout WNY. |
On this page, below:
Original Master bedroom - Dressing room
May 5, 2021 Photos
Second
floor hall Second floor hall ... First floor foyer below ... Skylight ... 4 marble pilasters ... Top of staircase ... Note floorboards, exposed after carpeting was removed  Second floor hall ... Leaded glass skylight  Second floor hall ... Fanciful balusters at top of staircase  Second floor hall ... Top of staircase ... One of four marble pilasters |
Elevator Elevator  Elevator ... Plaster ornamentation  Elevator ... Artificially lit skylight  Elevator |
Original Upstairs library Upstairs library  Upstairs library ... Mirror surround: ribbons ... bellflower swags  Upstairs library ... Mirror surround  Upstairs library ... Fireplace dentil molding beneath mantel ... Frieze panel featuring swag  Upstairs library ... Fireplace: marble surround ... shoulder ... scroll buttress |
Original Master bedroom  Master bedroom  Master bedroom - Plaster ornamentation in panel and on mirror frame  Master bedroom ... Marble fireplace and hearth ... Fire screen ... Andiron ... Oak floor  Master bedroom ... Fireplace foliated bas-relief frieze  Master bedroom ... Fireplace corner ... Acanthus leaves on leg |
Original Master
bedroom - Dressing room Master bedroom - Dressing room  Master bedroom - Dressing room ... Note bathroom doorway at left ... Marble surround and hearth ... Summer piece  Master bedroom - Dressing room ... Fireplace frieze features Vitruvian wave |
Master
bedroom - Bathroom Master bedroom - Bathroom  Master bedroom - Bathroom ... Marble tub and walls and floor ... Note wallpaper  Master bedroom - Bathroom ... Marble sink and floor  Master bedroom - Bathroom  Master bedroom - Bathroom ... Wallpaper depicts ribbons and swags and fountain and scrolling acanthus plant |
Original Bedroom  Bedroom ... Note draperies, detailed below:  Bedroom ... Scalloped valance, detailed below:  Bedroom ... Scalloped valance includes white acanthus leaves  Bedroom ... Marble fireplace  Bedroom ... Mirror reflects Knox House painting that hangs on opposite wall  Bedroom ... Mirror frame  Bedroom ... Mirror frame depicts Renaissance style foliage  Bedroom ... Fireplace similar to the one in the master bedroom, above ... Note marble hearth  Bedroom ... Fireplace frieze center carving  Bedroom ... Knox House Winter Scene ... Detail below:  Bedroom ... Signature: M[argaret]. M. Martin |
Downstairs foyer  Downstairs foyer historic photo  Downstairs foyer ... Basement ... Double-vase balusters ... Newel post ... Console table  Downstairs foyer ... Newel post in the shape of a scroll buttress ... Console table  Downstairs foyer ... Fanlight ... Three moldings detailed below:  Downstairs foyer ... Top and bottom: leaf-and-dart ... Middle: egg-and-dart  Downstairs foyer ... Sconce |
Ballroom  Ballroom  Ballroom ... Chandelier  Ballroom ... Oval design on frieze ... French doors  Ballroom ... Dentil molding ... Frieze decorated with classical scene ... Urn and swags  Ballroom ... Sconce Return to top |
Photos and their arrangement © 2021 Chuck LaChiusa
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