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 Exterior Photos  - Schoellkopf-Vom Berge House
121 Chapin Parkway, Buffalo, NY

Built: c. 1912
Architect:
Esenwein & Johnson
Style:
Flemish Renaissance
Original owner: Genevieve Schoellkopf-Vom Berge





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ca. 1912 .   

2 1⁄2-story side gable masonry building with Flemish Renaissance styling; ashlar stone foundation, brick siding, slate roof.

Features side rounded entry portico with stone columns and wrought iron balustrade. Front facade features partial width, uncovered stone sitting porch, accessed by double multi light door, balconette above.

Windows typically 1/1 wood sash double hung with stone window openings. Stone detailing.

Contains contributing 2 1⁄2 story brick secondary building (carriage house, now garage).

- National Register of Historic places Nomination: Elmwood Historic District East




 
October 2023 Photos

"... initially part of the Granger farmland and estate . . . in the late 1800s the property along Chapin became the Augusta C. Graves Estate . . . The Pan-American Exposition, which opened just north of this home in 1901, attracted visitors from around the world. At the construction of the exposition, and in conjunction with Buffalo's growing economic strength and population expansion, there was a high demand for residences. Many larger estates were divided down to allow for construction of stately homes, built on smaller pieces of property along the city's more distinguished Frederick Law Olmsted's Parkways including Chapin, Bidwell Lincoln, Richmond, Porter, Red Jacket and McKinley."          - The Schoellkopf -Vom Berge Manor, by Julie Robinson Hazzan, Show house Historian



Facade                   Architects: Esenwein & Johnson                      Flemish Renaissance style
                    Facade details below:                         

Facade                  Slate roofed and sided dormers         Dormers are reminiscent of Flemish gables, although Flemish gables are scalloped or stepped                                Metal horizontal snow guards


Facade                 Stone Gibbs surround on windows



Facade                  Partial width, uncovered stone sitting porch, accessed by double multi light door                        Balconette, detailed below: 


Facade                  Wrought iron balconette


Facade                  Trefoil motif on wrought iron




North elevation portico and main entrance                  Detail below:



North elevation               Slate roof  atop dentil molding and frieze featuring triglyphs and guttae                      Tuscan stone (Indiana limestone?) columns                 Wrought iron balustrade




Note south elevation at right of the house, detailed below:


South elevation                  Chimney features quoins vertical sawtooth pattern with foliated corbels                         Windows feature stone Gibbs surround              Water table                         Ashlar stone foundation                    Running bond brick pattern

South elevation                 Chimney features quoins vertical sawtooth pattern with foliated corbels



South elevation               Vertical sawtooth pattern                          Foliated corbels



South elevation                Running bond brick pattern            







2001 photo                     Carriage house





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Special thanks to Patty O'Brien of the Junior League for her cooperation and patience in 2001


Photos and their arrangement © 2023 Chuck LaChiusa
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