Williams-Butler House - Table of Contents

MISC. ROOMS -
Williams-Butler House / Jacobs Executive Development Center
672 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY

On this page, below:

Music room
Breakfast room
Bedrooms
Basement

2003 Photos

Music room Music room    ...      Rococo reception/music room across from the library    ...    Probably too small to be a music room, yet so called because of the music ornamentation over the mirror. Music room    ...    Gold leafing on the cove plaster. Music room    ...    Music room    ...    Marble fireplace:    Acanthus leaves and beads on cornice   ...    Bead-and-reel molding    ...   Fluted  Greek Ionic column Music room    ...    Fireback (Speculation:  Helpers for Hephaestus, the Greek god of blacksmiths, metalworking, carpenters, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors, metallurgy, fire, and volcanoes.  Hephaestus' Roman counterpart is Vulcan. )    ...   Top of brass andirons

Breakfast room

Bedrooms Woman's bedroom    ...     Frieze:  Ribbons    ...     Bellflowers      ...    Anthemia    ...  Pilasters flank decorative panel Woman's bedroom   ...    Fireplace with Classical ornamentation  bordering the marble  surround   ...    Andirons Woman's bedroom    ...    Mantle: Beads and acanthus leaves Frieze: Wreaths and bellflower    ...   Anthemia and patera Right leg:  Patera,  Classical face, foliage including anthemion Woman's bedroom    ...     Bathroom plaster ceiling

Man's bedroom    ...    Detail below: Man's bedroom    ....    Crown molding entablature:  Acanthus leaves on cornice    ...    Egg-and-dart    ...    Rosettes/paterae    ...     Reeding Man's bedroom    ...   Greek key design in door surround    ...    Veneered door

Basement Delft tiled fireplace    ...    Detail below:

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