William J. Crawford House
844 West Delavan Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14209
| Completed: |
1915 |
| Architecture firm: |
Wood & Bradney |
| Style: |
Colonial Revival |
| Exterior building material: |
Barre granite |
| Family Business: |
John Crawford (d. 1893) William J. Crawford - 1892 John Crawford & Son William J. Crawford, Jr. - 1916 V-P |
 Home of William J. Crawford, 844 West Delevan(sp?) Avenue President of W. J. Crawford & Co., Inc., Manufacturers Monuments, Mausoleums, etc. Source: Beautiful Homes of Buffalo, 1915 edition, Figure 17 University at Buffalo: Home of William J. Crawford, 844 West Delavan Avenue |
2016 photos  Exterior building has changed very little since 1916. Hipped roof ... Large Barre granite dormers and exterior ... Quoins ... Stone sills ... First story stone lintels ... Barre granite Doric round and square columns  South elevation  Stone clad dormer  Stone (Ohio limestone?) window surround ... Leaded flanking windows  Corner quoins  Tetrasyle temple front portico with Doric columns and pilasters  Doric column and pilaster  Patera  Paneled door with leaded glass side lights  Leaded glass side light  Barre granite ... Detail below:   Stone window surrounds  |
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William J Crawford
BIRTH: abt 1898 - New YorkRESIDENCE: 1935 - Buffalo, Erie, New York RESIDENCE: Buffalo, Erie, New York - 1940 US Federal Census |
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Norman Alexander MacDonald
In March 1902, and he came to buffalo .... He married June 19, 1907, in Buffalo, Mabel, daughter of William J. and Annie M. (Davis) Crawford. Her father is senior member of the firm of William J. Crawford & Company, Delaware and Delavan avenues, Buffalo, manufacturers of of mausoleums and statuary; both parents are living, and reside at 840 Potomac avenue. - Genealogical and Family History of Western New York Volume 2, edited by William Richard Cutter, 1912, p. 906 |
| William J. Crawford, of
William J. Crawford & Company, Buffalo, N.Y., is entitled to the
distinction of having what is probably the only Barre granite residence
occupied by a retail monument dealer in the country. This very handsome
residence, illustrated here, is also said to be the only granite
residence in Buffalo. The dimensions are 39 feet front and 42 feet in
depth. There are over eight loads of Barre granite [Vermont] in the house, and
the cut work is all twelve-cut. The architects are Wood & Bradney, designers of some the finest residences in Buffalo. The stock is from the Wells-Lamson Quarry Co. and was cut in the Crawford shops in Buffalo, including fluted columns, pilasters, etc. The platform of the porch is one stone, 16 feet 6 inches long, 6 feet 6 inches wide and 9 inches thick. This firm writes: "It may be of interest to you to know that we are at present engaged in the building of three mausoleums. Business never was better than it is at the present time, our orders being $15,000 in excess of the orders at this time last year." - Monumental News; Devoted to Monumental and Kindred Interests, Volume 27, Chicago, January, 1915, p. 707 |
 Granite Marble & Bronze, Volume 27 No. 1, January 1917, p. 38. (Online July 2017.) Underlining added for clarity |
 - System: The Magazine of Business, July 1919, pp. 864-65 John J. Crawford - 59 Chapin Parkway William J. Crawford (son) - 844 West Delavan Avenue |