Hamlin Family - Table of Contents

William Hamlin House
1058 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo NY
Southwest corner Delaware and Lexington

Built 1889 / Demolished 1937

[Cicero Jabez Hamlin] married, September 21, 1842, at Aurora, New York, Susan A. Ford, born June 10, 1821, at Green River, Columbia county, New York, daughter of Isaac and Polly (Leland) Ford.

Children:

    • Anne Ford, born July 1, 1843, died September 11, 1843
    • William, August 27, 1844[, died 1931]
    • Frank, born April 7, 1846
    • Kate, February 28, 1854, died March 17, 1857
    • Harry, born in Buffalo, New York, July 17, 1855, and was killed in an automobile accident at Buffalo, June 3, 1907.
- Geneological and Family History of Western New York, ed. by William Richard Cutter, 1912, Vol. I, pp. 354-355

Information gleaned from Buffalo's Delaware Avenue: Mansions and Families, by Edward T. Dunn. Pub. by Canisius College Press, 2003, pp. 505-506:
  • Style of the house: Richardsonian Romanesque, perhaps in imitation of the Gratwick House. Architect Henry Burdett, of Marling & Burdett, worked for a time in Richardson's office.

  • William's father, Cicero Hamlin, lived at 1335 Delaware Avenue.

  • William's brother, Harry, lived at 1014 Delaware.

  • William and Harry "had been active, along with their father, in running American Glucose until it was sold in 1897."

  • "William's wife was Kate Gates, daughter of George Gates, the sleeping car magnate of #546 Delaware.  William died in 1931 at eighty-one. His wife died in 1932. The house, a glut on the market in the Depression, stood empty until it was demolished in 1937  along with the barn where some of the famed Hamlin horses had been stabled. At that time three daughters of William and Kate Hamlin,  Mrs. George A. Mitchell, Mrs. Susan Hamlin Follwell, and Mrs. Wilmot Griffis, resided at the nearby luxury apartments at #800 West Ferry." [Kate Gates Hamlin, at the time of her death, lived at 800 West Ferry.]

Illustration source: "Views of Buffalo," Pub. Exclusively for S. H. Knox. Portland, Maine: L. H. Nelson Co. 1903?

Style: Richardsonian Romanesque, perhaps in imitation of the Gratwick House. Architect Henry Burdett, of
Marling & Burdett, worked for a time in Richardson's office.

Three illustrations of the Hamlin House below courtesty of
St. Croix Architecture Architecture Plans, Prints, and Photos


Architect: Messrs. Marling & Burdett.
Measures 16.75 by 13 inches.





Architect: Messrs. Marling & Burdett.


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