The house at 82 Plymouth is a fine example of a Queen Anne style home. The house was a victim of a car traveling too fast through the intersection of Plymouth and Pennsylvania when it crashed into the porch of this home during the summer of 1998. The entire home is now in the process of being restored.
The large house at 88 Plymouth was built by Mr. William F. Duckwitz, a collector with Ziegele Brewing Co., in 1887 on the Fargo estate. Today the home is owned by John Morgan who in recent years has done a beautiful job painting the house and has cultivated gorgeous gardens in the back and front yards.
91 Plymouth Avenue is good example of a frame house that was built in Buffalo about 1880. It still retains many of its decorative features including window moldings. It is the home of Bill Lindner, former Vice President of the KCA and present member of the Symphony Circle Steering Committee.
The house at 94 Plymouth was designed in 1888 by architect Charles Day Swan for Fred and Lu Lu Knoll. The Knolls owned a piano and organ business at 78 East Seneca Street. When the house was built it was described as being a “handsome dwelling on the Fargo estate.” The Knoll family lived in this house for many years. Clara Knoll was living in the house through the mid-1930s. Today the lovely Queen Anne style structure is the home of the Gomez family.
The house at 96 Plymouth is a wonderful brick and frame Queen Anne style house which was purchased in 2001 by the Hand family: David, Ruth and Reuben. David moved into the KCA area a few years ago and rented until the right opportunity came along to purchase this house and turn it from an absentee-owned to an owner-occupied site. The houses at 95 and 99 Plymouth are unique and outstanding examples of Second Empire frame cottages. They are twin houses and are distinguished by a flat roofed tower arising from a straight sided mansard roof with wood shingles. The window dormers have pediment heads decorated with a foliate cut-out pattern and brackets under the roof eaves. The entrance at 95 Plymouth retains its original wood paneled double doors. The front porches of these homes are especially attractive with their turned and fluted posts and spindles in the balustrade. The house at 95 Plymouth is further distinguished by its carved house number in the porch pediment and wrought-iron fencing. 95 Plymouth was the former home of preservationist Larry Bartz. 99 Plymouth is the home of Lynne Vallone, an advocate for the KCA target area redevelopment initiative. Lynne’s home is currently undergoing extensive renovation. It was a property that by today’s standards for demolition would have been destroyed if she didn’t have the vision and forward thinking to reclaim it years ago.
The house at 100 Plymouth is an exceptional example of a brick and frame Queen Anne style house built for Hiram Exstein of Exstein & Co., manufacturers and jobbers of men’s furnishing goods in the late 1880s. Architecturally, the house is designed with a gable roof offset with a two story pentagonal roofed frame tower. The gable is given a distinctive look with tri-part windows, pilaster strips and an entablature. The top of the gable is decorated with a center medallion supported by brackets. Pedimented dormers on the side of the home add to the detailed accents.
The small cottage at 101 Plymouth has had an interesting history. Although it has been modified considerably from its original appearance, this cottage was built in the late 1860s and had Italianate features. It was moved to its present site; at one time it sat directly on the Circle during the period that it rose to greatness. At that time its address was 83 Wadsworth Street where today the Grace Manor Nursing Home stands. The house appears to have been built about 1867 by a carpenter named R. Pallister. This dwelling served as the Pallister family home for nearly 10 years. In the late 1870s, John O. Smith who built the Wing Mansion at 91 Wadsworth Street and had a tile yard across the street at 90 Wadsworth operated his business out of this house when it was at 83 Wadsworth Street. Smith was a sewer builder and contractor. Around 1879 or 1880, Smith left this house and moved to 365 Pennsylvania Street. In 1882 Charles Ahaart moved this house from 83 Wadsworth to its present location. By the late 1880s it was home to Percy Blake, an engineer.
107 Plymouth was built in 1882 by Rev. Henry W. Crabbe, pastor of the Old United Presbyterian Church. The church was originally located on Washington St. near Eagle but in the 1880s moved to Richmond Ave. on the corner of Summer St. Converted to a 2-family dwelling in the 1930s, the house was restored back to a single in 1997 by the home’s current owner, Dot Brown.
The house at 112 Plymouth was built in 1888 and its construction was well publicized - it was announced in three national architectural journals. The house was built for Henry Zink, a prosperous real estate broker who also dealt in stocks, bonds, mortgages, government securities and commercial paper. It was designed by Milton E. Beebe, one of Buffalo’s foremost 19th century architects.
The house at 118 Plymouth was built circa 1888 for Dr. J. W. Grosvenor, a Civil War surgeon. Grosvenor lived to be 93 years old in this house and practiced medicine in Buffalo and Lockport for 50 years. He was a distant cousin of the donor of the Grosvenor Library which merged with the present Buffalo and Erie County Public Library.
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