Richmond-Lockwood House - Table of Contents
Exterior
- The Richmond-Lockwood House
844
Delaware Avenue,
Buffalo,
N.Y.
844
Delaware originally encompassed the land all
the way through to Richmond Avenue
(in Delaware Preservation District)
Completed: |
1918 alterations |
Architects: |
1918 alterations by Esenwein & Johnson |
Style: |
English Tudor Revival manor house |
Present Owner: |
Child
and Family Services (online Feb. 2021) |
Status: |
In Delaware Preservation District |
2003 color photos
![]() The 1887 fire-ravaged Richmond House ... Source: The Pictorial year-book and calendar for 1888. with Buffalo events in 1887, valuable statistics, etc. Reprinted by Cornell U. (online Feb. 2021) |
Lockwood
House![]() Two and a half story Tudor Revival manor house ... Asymmetrical ... Prominent, steeply pitched cross gable roof ... Enclosed sun porch in left front ![]() Decorative (i.e., not structural) half-timbering and brick façade ![]() Front entrance steps ... Tudor Revival arch, stone enframement with quoins ... Front porch does not include front door ... Eight-over-eight lights with Tudor arched transoms. One would expect the front door place of front door - which is located to the left ... Hood molding over segmented transom. ... 12-light casement windows to right of porch ![]() Front entrance steps, with door on far left. ![]() Enclosed sun porch in left front includes main entry ... Transom windows ... Tudor or flattened pointed arches in door surrounds or entry porches ... Hood molding over segmented transom ![]() Compound arches ... Small tabs of cut stone project into surrounding brickwork, giving a quoin-like effect ![]() Tudor or flattened pointed arches in door surround. ... Two triangular spandrels ![]() Triangular spandrel ![]() Straight headed eight over eight lights. ... Flat stone lintel ... Gibbs surround ![]() Decorative (i.e., not structural) half-timbering ... Stucco inset into exposed wood framing ... Rows (bands, strings) of four casement windows located on main gable ![]() Carved corbels on rectangular bay window ... Rounded dentils ![]() Carved bargeboard (vergeboard, gableboard) ... Half-timbering ![]() Carved bargeboard (vergeboard, gableboard) ... Half-timbering ![]() Steeply pitched gabled dormer ... Carved vergeboard .. Half-timbering ... Double casement windows ![]() Massive chimney ... Multiple shafts in chimney, representing the number of flues contained within |
Rear (west) of house![]() Rear (west) of house ... Half-timbering ... Dormer with band of windows ... Transom windows over first floor entry and windows ![]() Rear (west) of house ![]() Rear (west) of house ... Battered posts ![]() Rear (west) of house |