Hewitt
House / Inn Buffalo - Table of Contents
Formal Parlor /
Library / Music room
Herbert H. Hewitt House - Inn Buffalo/Off Elmwood
619 Lafayette Avenue, Buffalo, NY
Inn Buffalo/Off Elmwood - Official Website
2015
Photos Formal parlor ![]() ![]() Fireplace ![]() Foliated silk damask wallpaper stretched over felt(?) and tacked on furring strips ... Note tacks which were spit out of the artisan's mouth onto a magnetized hammer and then tacked ![]() Fireplace: onyx detail ![]() Fireplace onyx head (top) and jambs ... Original gas logs ... Hexagonal mosaic hearth ![]() Pocket doors ![]() Red mahogany pocket doors and baseboards with a French rub finish ![]() Pocket doors ![]() Kittinger Jacobean Revival table features elaborately turned legs and X stretchers on loan from the J. J. Marotto collection |
Library ![]() Bookcases are not original, but this was the original library. Evidence (not illustrated) is that the quarter-sawn oak flooring stopped a foot or so away from the wall indicating that there were original built-in bookcases. ![]() Looking into the front hall ... Wainscoting ![]() Facing the street ![]() Stenciled medallion on gilded ceiling ... Process: Plaster walls covered with canvas while the plaster is still wet ("tender.") The canvas is either painted or gilded - as in this room - or has furring strips added in order to tack on silk damask wallpaper - as in the formal parlor illustrated above - or tapestry - as in the music room illustrated below... Empire style Swedish chandelier is not original to the house ![]() Stenciled medallion on gilded ceiling - detail ![]() Stenciled medallion on gilded ceiling - detail ![]() Stenciled medallion on gilded wall ![]() Oak wainscoting ![]() Gas radiant heater probably not original ... Glazed brick hearth ![]() Adjustable music, lectern, book stand made of oak and brass with metal wheels |
2015 photos except where noted Music Room Evidence that this originally was the music room: The scenes in the tapestries involve music ![]() 2014 photo ... Artisans removing white paint to reveal the original stenciled gilding. Photo courtesy of Ellen & Joseph Lettieri ![]() 2014 photo ... White paint being removed to reveal the original gilding. Photo courtesy of Ellen & Joseph Lettieri ![]() 2014 photo ... Artisans removing white paint to reveal the original stenciled gilding. Photo courtesy of Ellen & Joseph Lettieri ![]() Coffered ceiling ... Three details below: ![]() Paneled ceiling detail #1: Uncovered stenciled lower section ... Wooden rosettes ![]() Paneled ceiling detail #2 ![]() Paneled ceiling detail #3: Uncovered stenciled middle section ![]() Note tapestry at right (in center, below:) ![]() Note center tapestry music scene, detailed below: ![]() Note bottom and top plain sections where tapestry is tacked onto furring strips ![]() ![]() Closeup showing furring strips, canvas, and tacks ![]() Walls were originally plastered, then covered with neutral colored canvas, and then painted or gilded ... Note unglued canvas ![]() Identical tapestries with music scenes on opposite wall ![]() 1871 Boston Chickering piano made of rosewood ... This style piano was a precursor of the grand piano ... Style: Rococo Revival ![]() ![]() |