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Top illustration caption: A very early engraving of Gen. Porter's house at Black Rock. This crude woodcut, 7 by 13 inches in the original, was engraved by H. Merrill, of Buffalo, probably about 1835, when the first railroad to the [Niagara] Falls was built through the Porter grounds, and a fence was erected. Crude as it is, this interesting picture well shows the old mansion the ice-house in the bank the steps that formerly led to the river the various outbuildings Source:"The Picture Book of Earlier Buffalo," Severance, Frank H., ed. Buffalo Historical Society, Vol. 16, 1912, p. 260 (online) Illustration at top is an early illustration of the 1816 house. The bottom illustration shows the Porter House as altered (especially roof and entrance) by Lewis Allen (he acquired the house in 1836). Source of the bottom photo is the same.

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