File:George B. Matthews House, Delaware Avenue, Bryant, Buffalo, NY - 52630499821.jpg
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English: Built in 1901, this Jacobethan Revival-style mansion was designed by Edward B. Green and William S. Wicks for George B. Matthews, partner in the firm of Schoellkopf and Matthews. The house was inhabited by Matthews and his wife, Jenny Rebecca Modisette Matthews, with both being active members in local clubs and organizations, including the Twentieth Century Club, the Garret, and multiple country clubs, as well as the Union League and Buffalo Club. Matthews donated $1 million of his own money to build a YMCA on Michigan Avenue to serve the local black community, as well as being a significant donor to the Booker T. Washington Foundation. George Matthews died in 1942 at the age of 95, with Jenny continuing to live in the house until her death in 1951, with the house, one of the last mansions on Delaware Avenue to be utilized as a private residence, being subsequently sold to the Children’s Aid Society and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children to house children with “emotional problems.” The mansion, smaller than many of its contemporaries on Delaware Avenue, nevertheless is designed to impress with its quality of design and grandeur. The house features a red flemish bond brick exterior with a gabled roof featuring parapets at the gable ends topped with stone caps, large brick chimneys, limestone trim around the windows, a limestone front portico with clustered doric columns and a simple cornice, a side portico similar to the front portico, a rusticated stone base, and an uncovered stone front terrace. The house also features a rear rusticated medina red sandstone cottage in the Queen Anne style with a gabled roof, timber frame porch, and stone chimneys. The house is owned by the Child & Family Services of Erie County, and presently houses the administrative offices of the Stanley G. Falk School, which serves children with special needs. The house is a contributing structure in the Delaware Avenue Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. |
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