The
Parke Lane Apartments / Park
Lane Condominium
33 Gates Circle, Buffalo, NY
Park Lane
Condominium - Official Website
| Porter and
Jennie Watson Norton House: |
1901
Georgian
Revival mansion |
| Parke Apartments
built: |
1924-25 on the grounds of the former Norton House |
| Original name: |
Parke Apartments |
| Parke
origin: |
1919
Building
bought by Walter Parke, head of a Chicago real
estate company that built the apartment house |
| Architect: |
H. L. Stevens & Co., NY City |
| Style: |
Second
Renaissance
Revival |
| Structure: |
Cast-in-place
concrete |
| Name change: |
1925
The
Parke Lane apartments 1926 The Park Lane apartments |
| Park Lane
apartments converted to condominiums: |
1977 |
| Norton mansion adaptive reuse: | 1926
Park
Lane Restaurant |
| 1926 Park lane
Restaurant manager: |
Peter
Gust
Economou |
| Rebuilt
Park Lane Restaurant: |
1971 Tudor Revival style |
| Neighbors: |
Gates
Circle Millard Fillmore Hospital |
| Similar luxurious
apartment houses: |
Campanile 800 West Ferry |
| Nomination
for Listing on the State & National Registers of
Historic Places Clinton Brown Company Architecture/Rebuild - on the Buffalo Architecture and History Website Nominations reprinted on this website Landmarks and Historic Districts in Buffalo, NY |
2016 Exterior Photos East elevation  Date reflects change in spelling, from Parke Lane to Park lane  East elevation, facing Gates Circle  Main entrance wing   Main entrance ... Detail below ... Background: Gates Circle-Delaware Apartments  Broken pediment above fanlight ... Engaged Tuscan columns |
North elevation  North elevation facing Lafayette Avenue  Corner quoins ... Third story window cornices ... First story window pediments (detail below:)  First story window pediments  Corner quoins ... Second story window features stone lintel and sill ... Keystone ... Rounded arch with decorated tympanum above eight over eight lights  Keystone ... Rounded arch with decorated tympanum: ribbons, garland, pendant bellflowers ... Label stops  Stone (Ohio limestone?) window surround: Triangular pediment ... Plain frieze  Roundel ... Broken pediment with acanthus ornament  Cornice supported by ancone  Flanking C scroll buttresses  Copper modillion-supported cornice  North west elevations |