Colonel Lewis M. Evans Home
90 Beard Ave
Built 1895; Demolished 1940
Post demolition: small one story
brick cape on this lot now.
Col. Evans:
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Son of Williamsville pioneer Henry B. Evans
- Grand-nephew of Joseph
Ellicott (surveyor/founder of
Buffalo)
- Various jobs in the grain business,
- Alderman 21st district/Buffalo,
- Comptroller/Buffalo.
- 1870s associated with General William Bull
in the paper/stationery business, which
eventually was sold to Otto Ulbrich
(Ulbrichs")
- Agent, American Book Co. of NYC
- Died 1904
- After his death, home was sold to Gustave
Lundquist.
- Demolished in 1940.
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**No picture**
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.
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The
George H. Selkirk Home
277
Depew Ave,
SW Corner of Depew and Parker
Built
1893
Demolished
1941
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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.
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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.
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The
Lewis Jackson Bennett Home
354
Depew Avenue
Built
1892
Architect
M.E. Beebe & Son
Demolished
1932, Lot subdivided into 12 smaller lots, as
seen today with 12 homes currently.
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Andrew
F West Home
184
Morris, NW corner Morris and Parker
Built
1893
Demolished
1938
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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
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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
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