The Mayflower
Apartments
66 Summer Street at Linwood, Buffalo NY
Buffalo
Management Group: The Mayflower Apartments - Official website
(online
July 2021)
Erected:
1929
Style: Italian Renaissance
Revival
June 6, 2021 photos
Facade 3-bay facade on Summer Street  Details, starting at the top:  Cornice ... White, glazed terra cotta ... Sunbursts in frieze ... Segmental arch window surround ... Belt courses ... Dentil molding ... Vertical soldier brick pattern  Dentil molding ... Vertical soldier brick bond pattern   Griffin guardian ... Note terra cotta spandrel panels between windows  White, glazed terra cotta entrance surround   Rope Molding ... Fluted and rosette molding ... Terra cotta balustrade ... Fasces ... Terra cotta panel with cartouche and scrolling acanthus plant ... Terra cotta panel with urn flanked by scrolling acanthus plants   Terra cotta balustrade ... Terra cotta panel with urn and scrolling acanthus plant handles ... Terra cotta Greek Composite style column pilaster and column  Polychrome glazed terra cotta entrance surround ... Tympanum features the historic Mayflower (an English ship that transported a group of English Pilgrims from England to the New World in 1620. After a grueling 10 weeks at sea, Mayflower, with 102 passengers and a crew of about 30, reached America, dropping anchor near the tip of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, on November 21, 1620)   |
East elevation facing Linwood Avenue East and north elevations  Sixth floor decorative balustrade with ancone supports ... Decorative keystones  Belt course ... Dentil molding ... Terra cotta lozenge ... Rope Molding ... Fluted and rosette molding ... 12 over 1 lights ... Terra cotta panel with cartouche and scrolling acanthus plant  Belt course ... Dentil molding ... Terra cotta lozenge ... Rope Molding ... Fluted and rosette molding  Belt course ... Dentil molding ... Terra cotta lozenge ... Rope Molding ... Fluted and rosette molding ... Terra cotta panel with cartouche and scrolling acanthus plant |
  Image courtesy of Explore Buffalo |
