Charles W. Miller House
172 Summer St., Buffalo, NY
Charles
W.
Miller
House
172 Summer St., Buffalo, NY
Charles W. Miller of the C. W. Miller Transfer Co. built this house in 1887. Miller was the owner of a livery business on Huron Street and from this "high ground" on Summer Street could watch for his horse-drawn cabs from a four-windowed widow's walk featured in the building.
The house, which is near Delaware Avenue and adjacent to the Westminster Presbyterian Church property was sold in 1921 to Stephen Spaulding, owner of the Spaulding Coal and Coke Co. and distributor of the widely known "blue coal."
In 1948, the house was sold to Dr. L. Halliday Meisburger, D.D.S., whose son, Dr. L. Halliday Meisburger Jr., also a dentist was the next owner.
- "Area Landmarks: 172 Summer Street," by Lawrence McIntyre, pub. in the Buffalo News"From my research, the house is on the 1872 Buffalo atlas, and T.C. Davis was reported living there from about 1860 onward." - Christopher N. Brown, 2014
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Italian villa style: Three-story tower |
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Paired Italianate brackets |
Paired front doors with rounded transom |
Reception hall fireplace and stairs |
Reception hall fireplace: Egg-and-dart |
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Fireback and andirons |
Reception hall |
Reception hall |
Reception hall |
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Wallpaper mural |
Detail from previous photo |
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Leaded glass windows in hall stairway wall |
Second floor door |
Reception hall door |
Wallpaper mural |
