Hollister/Evans House - Table of Contents
Hollister/Evans House
186-188 North Street, Buffalo NYHistory beneath photos
Duplex:
Left/east: #186 - The Hollister House ... Right: #188 - The Evans House ...
Second Empire style
Duplex: #186 - The Hollister House ... #188 - The Evans House
Ionic capital and fluted shaft
Second Empire style iron cresting atop mansard roof
Straight mansard roof ... ... Flared roof crowns dormer ... Brick corbel table ... Unusual sawtooth lintel ... Stretcher and soldier bricks form an unusual bond
A bit of history: Seemingly, the earlier brick driveway was replaced for the most part with concrete.
West elevation
West elevation and north facade
West elevation
Brick corbel table ... Stretcher and soldier bricks form an unusual bond ... Unusual sawtooth lintel
Brick voussoirs over round arched window ... Water table above Onondaga limestone basement wall
Viking alarm system
Two details below:
Saw tooth lintel
Frank M. and Mary Evans Hollister House
186 North St., side by side duplex with 188 North St.
Built 1874
Mrs. Hollister was the daughter of James Cary Evans, the Hollisters' next door neighbor. (Evans's other daughter, Ella K. Evans, lived at 40 Irving Place, the next street off North, parallel to Park Street.)
James Hollister House, Frank's boyhood home
Source: Buffalo's Delaware Avenue: Mansions and Families, by Edward T. Dunn. Pub. by Canisius College Press, 2003
Frank Hollister’s father, James Hollister, founded Hollister Bank of Buffalo and built his home on the corner of Delaware Avenue at Niagara Square in 1848 and lived there until 1857. (The house was purchased by Millard Fillmore and his new wife in 1858. The Hotel Statler was built on the site in 1921-23.)
Frank and Mary moved to 186 North after they were married. There they had two children, Evan b. 1875 and Ethel b. 1876.
Evans was born in Baltimore in 1809. He moved to Batavia 1826 to work for his great uncle Joseph Ellicott (1760-1826) at the Holland Land Co. He moved to Buffalo in 1834 where he was an Erie Canal commission merchant. He was the owner of the Evans Ship Canal.
Evans Ship Canal, just west of the Commercial Slip.
Joseph Dart's grain elevator was located on the Buffalo River at the Evans Ship Canal.
Source: 1863 Buffalo map on display at the Buffalo History Museum
Evans founded a ship company which built the first iron steamer on Great Lakes.
Evans built the North Street double house for himself and his daughter, Mary.
