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Dr. Ernest Wende House
471 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY
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 2005 photo ... Note the restaurant canopy. ... Other photos below were taken in June 2014  2014 photo  Above the balconet ... Top: Cyma recta ... Bead-and-reel molding ... Gougework ... Dentils ... Egg-and-dart ... Bead-and-reel molding  Balustraded balconet  Architrave features Bead-and-reel and bead moldings. Composite capital: Fleuron ... Egg-and-dart ... Shell ... Volutes flanked by acanthus leaves  Terra cotta double vase balusters ... Bead-and-reel molding  Terra cotta paneled foliated pilasters  Dentils above doorway ... Wooden paneled door with linenfold design   Linenfold |
Mural South elevation mural ... Parking lot was the site of the Dr. Floyd Crego House, completing the row houses on the Midway.  "Lion," by Frank Cravotta the summer of 1996  |
The census information and history below are excerpts from
Buffalo's Delaware Avenue: Mansions and Families, by Edward T. Dunn. Pub.
by Canisius College Press, 2003, pp. 290-298
| 1905 census: |
Ernest Wende M.D. 51 NY [died
1910]; Frances Wende 50; Margaret Wende 12 daughter
school; Hamilton Wende 12 son school; Flavilla Wende 17
daughter school; Samuel J. Cutler 84 England boarder |
| 1915 census: |
Grover Wende M.D. 47 [Ernest's brother]; David Wende 27 son school; Elizabeth Wende 51 |
| 1920 census: | F. Grover Wende M.D. 52
NY; David F. Wende 22 NY son president insurance company;
Susan Wende 32 NY niece clerk; Alive Heiniman 22 NY |
| 1925 census: | Grover W. Wende M.D. 56; David Wende 25 son medical student; Julia B. Trotter 23 lodger |
