Richmond-Lockwood House - Table of Contents
Exterior
- The Richmond-Lockwood House
844
Delaware Avenue,
Buffalo,
N.Y.
844
Delaware originally encompassed the land all
the way through to Richmond Avenue
(in Delaware Preservation District)
Completed: |
1918 alterations |
Architects: |
1918 alterations by Esenwein & Johnson |
Style: |
English Tudor Revival manor house |
Present Owner: |
Child
and Family Services (online Feb. 2021) |
Status: |
In Delaware Preservation District |
2003 color photos
The 1887 fire-ravaged Richmond House ... Source: The Pictorial year-book and calendar for 1888. with Buffalo events in 1887, valuable statistics, etc. Reprinted by Cornell U. (online Feb. 2021) |
Lockwood
House Two and a half story Tudor Revival manor house ... Asymmetrical ... Prominent, steeply pitched cross gable roof ... Enclosed sun porch in left front Decorative (i.e., not structural) half-timbering and brick façade Front entrance steps ... Tudor Revival arch, stone enframement with quoins ... Front porch does not include front door ... Eight-over-eight lights with Tudor arched transoms. One would expect the front door place of front door - which is located to the left ... Hood molding over segmented transom. ... 12-light casement windows to right of porch Front entrance steps, with door on far left. Enclosed sun porch in left front includes main entry ... Transom windows ... Tudor or flattened pointed arches in door surrounds or entry porches ... Hood molding over segmented transom Compound arches ... Small tabs of cut stone project into surrounding brickwork, giving a quoin-like effect Tudor or flattened pointed arches in door surround. ... Two triangular spandrels Triangular spandrel Straight headed eight over eight lights. ... Flat stone lintel ... Gibbs surround Decorative (i.e., not structural) half-timbering ... Stucco inset into exposed wood framing ... Rows (bands, strings) of four casement windows located on main gable Carved corbels on rectangular bay window ... Rounded dentils Carved bargeboard (vergeboard, gableboard) ... Half-timbering Carved bargeboard (vergeboard, gableboard) ... Half-timbering Steeply pitched gabled dormer ... Carved vergeboard .. Half-timbering ... Double casement windows Massive chimney ... Multiple shafts in chimney, representing the number of flues contained within |
Rear (west) of house Rear (west) of house ... Half-timbering ... Dormer with band of windows ... Transom windows over first floor entry and windows Rear (west) of house Rear (west) of house ... Battered posts Rear (west) of house |