Truscott House - Table of Contents
Bessie Sweet
Truscott House
33 Oakland Place, Buffalo, NY
TEXT Beneath Illustrations
2006 Photos
Entry hall Entry hall Colonial Revival staircase Detail below: Entry hall Colonial Revival staircase Finial atop newel post Turned Colonial Revival balusters painted typical Colonial Revival color white C scroll applied stair-ends |
Living room Living room Detail below: Living room Contemporary reproduction table features curved corners and reeded legs Living room 7 details below: Living room Georgian Revival fireplace not original to the house Living room One of two matching Neoclassical style candelabra adorning the fireplace mantel Living room Neoclassical style clock and candelabra form a matching set Living room Entablature Fluted frieze between corner and center urns Pendant bellflowers Marble jambs Twisted andirons Foliate fender Living room Detail - fireplace Entablature: egg-and-dart Fluting Urn Pendant bellflowers Living room Egg-and-dart molding underneath molded overhanging cornice Urn and beads in center frieze panel flanked by fluting Living room Reproduction brass Empire andiron with paw feet Reproduction brass fender Living room Reproduction Empire andiron with twisted flame finial and paw feet |
Dining room Dining room Two details below: Dining room - detail #1 Reproduction Chippendale chairs Dining room - detail #2 1930s reproduction veneered buffet |
Other rooms
Library added in the early
20th century
Library
Looking out into the patio and backyard
Master
bedroom
3 details below:
Master
bedroom
Kitchen Kitchen
Originally a cooking fireplace
with stoking door for logs below cooking area
Kitchen
Kitchen wall cutout reveals former butler's pantry
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An excerpt from The interior, which originally mirrored the interior of 29, retains the Colonial staircase with its Palladian window. The living room is in the front and the dining room is behind it; all of the openings are framed by pedimented Greek Revival casings. Number 33 was expanded in the early part of the twentieth century. Instead of windows at the east end of the dining room, a short stairway leads down to a rich and inviting library. This room has a beamed ceiling, wood-mantel fireplace, built-in bookcases, and walls covered in oil paper. |