George Coit House - Photos and
history
George Coit House
414 Virginia Street, Buffalo, NY
Erected Circa 1818
The George
Coit homestead, southeast corner Swan and Pearl Streets, is built c. 1818. It
will be moved from its original site in the 1870s to 414 Virginia Street, as downtown
becomes increasingly commercial following the Civil War. In the 1960s it will become
a a run-down boardinghouse slated for demolition when the Landmark Society will buy
it and sell it to a private owner who will restore it. By 2002, it will possibly
be the oldest house in Buffalo and one of its few surviving Federal ones.
Photo source:
"The Picture Book of Earlier Buffalo," Severance, Frank H., ed. Buffalo
Historical Society, Vol. 16, 1912 (online)