Central Park – Demolished Buildings

Buffalo, New York

Research by Barbara Townsend

Colonel Lewis M Evans Home

90 Beard Ave 

Built 1894

Demolished 1940

Post demolition: small one story brick cape on this lot now.

The George H. Selkirk Home

277 Depew Ave, SW Corner of Depew and Parker 

Built 1893

Demolished 1941

The Henry May Home

290 Depew, NE corner Depew & Parker

Built 1915

Architect Wood & Bradney

Demolished 1945 (May died in 1944, prior to demolition, home was advertised for sale in paper for a year, then it was demolished in 1945, due to lack of sale.) Currently carriage house is all that remains as a single home.

Andrew F West Home

184 Morris, NW corner Morris and Parker 

Built 1893

Demolished 1938

The Otowega Club  at Starin & Linden (very loose translation "The North People" from a Native American dialect) as CP was so far North from the city at that time.

Built: 1895

Architect : Green & Wicks

Demolished: 1945

The Willis & Josephine "Josie" Carlough Buck Home

91 Starin Ave. NE corner Morris and Starin 

Built: 1893

Demolished: 1928

Post demolition: 2 contemporary brick homes were built on the lots, one facing Morris, the other facing Starin.

Note: Found a glimpse of the house in a Beautiful Homes Book (1915 ed) blue arrow

The Lewis Jackson Bennett Home

354 Depew Avenue

Built 1892

Architect M.E. Beebe & Son

The A. L Taylor Home

    330 Depew Ave

NW corner of Depew and Wesley Avenues

Built: 1893

Demolished: 1931 

Post demolition: Brick home currently standing at 330 Depew was built in 1955

for Charles Kingman Bassett to house his "office", businesses were and are illegal in Central Park,

so the "office" was disguised as a single family home. It is now a single family home.

The Frank Markley Brinker Home

   253 Depew Ave

Built 1893

Demolished 1936

Post demolition current brick MCM home at 253 Depew built 1955 and

the modern setback home also on the Brinker property built about 1980.