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James Platt White House
144 Chapin Parkway , Buffalo, NY
History
of Chapin Parkway
Chapin
Parkway - Index of houses
James Platt White House
144 Chapin Parkway ,
Buffalo, NY
140 Chapin Parkway was built for Seymour White in 1911. His son lived next door at #144 Chapin.
October 2023 Photos
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ca.
1902 2
1⁄2-story side gable Neoclassical house. Brick above
ashlar stone foundation, brick building, asphalt shingle roof.
Central
entry with circular leading pattern in wood door under
classically styled balconette. Dominating full
height partial width pedimented entry porch with Corinthian
columns, classical entablature and rake, circular window. 1/1
double hung wood windows with stone sills and splayed keystone
lintels. Ashlar water table course. Two small gable dormers
with arched windows. Contains
contributing flat roof secondary building (garage). In
front of 144 Chapin Parkway - Contributing
brick
knee wall with stone cap. |
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The
White-Douglas House,
144 Chapin Parkway, Buffalo, New York, March 2021. Among
the grandest residences on Chapin Parkway is this Colonial
Revival beauty whose most eye-catching detail is a full
tetrastyle Corinthian temple front. Classical details abound
elsewhere, too: the overhanging eaves of the side-gabled
roof and the underside of the frontal pediment are all
supported by modillions with dentil rows beneath; an
elegantly balustraded second-floor balconet peeks out from
behind the columns; a strict bilateral symmetry defines the
façade. Windows are each crowned by splayed lintels in cut
stone with ornamental keystones.
The
house was built in 1902 for Mary Ann White (née Dobbins;
1840-1911), the widow of James Penfield White
(1844-1894), a prominent local businessman and politico who
owned the White
Building downtown.
Also living in the home at the time and prominent in his
own right was her son James Platt White
(1878-1937), a nationally notable authority on and
critic of the American dramatic arts. The
house was sold after the death of the former, whereupon it
passed into the ownership of attorney William Alexander
Douglas (1859-1921) and his wife Alice née Hedstrom
(1866-1939), a pioneering female business executive with the
coal and coke dealership of E. L. Hedstrom & Co. Mr.
Douglas lived in the house until his death, and his widow
moved in with her daughter at the Hotel
Lenox [Hotel
Lenox] the following
year.
-
Andre
Carrotflower,
Wikimedia
Commons, 9 March 2021
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  National
Historic District listing: contributing brick knee wall with
stone cap
 One
of two small gable
dormers
with arched windows and gouged
dentils, clad with slate
tiles
Modillions
supporting
cornices
Gilded
Roman
(smooth shaft) Corinthian column
and
pilaster
Keystone
in splayed
lintel
Brick
running bond pattern
  Modillions:
S
scrolls with bottom acanthus
leaves
Egg-and-dart
molding
Dentil
molding
Gilded Roman (smooth shaft) Corinthian column  Neoclassical
style pedimented
entry portico
Classical
entablature
supported by Gilded
Roman
(smooth shaft) Corinthian columns
Classically
styled balconette
with single
vase-shaped balusters
Circular window in
pediment tympanum
      South elevation
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