Robert B. Adam House
448 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY
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1876 |
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Architect: |
Cyrus K. Porter |
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Second Empire |
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Original Owner: |
Robert B. Adam |
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Present owners: |
TRM Architect |
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Location: |
Allentown Preservation District |
This Victorian mansion, with its brick exterior and mansard roof, was designed by well-known 19th century Buffalo architect Cyrus K. Porter and built in 1876 as a private home for Robert B. Adam. Adam came from Scotland in 1857 and a decade later started the Adam, Meldrum & Anderson department store.
The Buffalo City Directories list Adam living here from at least 1878-1906.
A 1989 drawing by Lawrence McIntyre depicts the house with a small porch in front of the front entrance. McIntyre writes, "The mansion was a private residence until about 1920, when it became the Johnson and Wilkins Funeral Home." Apparently that's when the porch was enlarged and expanded across the entire front of the house. The (1920's?) photo below clearly shows the expanded porch.
McIntyre also writes that the building was converted to 6,600 square feet of office space by David W. Rumsey, president of Rumsey Real Estate, Inc., about 1985. The current owners are TRM Architect.
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448 Delaware Ave. (1920s?) |
2002 Buffalo Preservation Board award given to the Moscati family for the restoration of the building |
Left: Philip Dorsheimer House by H. H. Richardson |
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Porch was probably expanded about 1920 |
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2003 owners: TRM Architect |
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