Barton House, Summit Avenue, Parkside, Buffalo, NY : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Barton House, Summit Avenue, Parkside, Buffalo, NY / w_lemay
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| 説明 | Built in 1903, this Prairie-style house was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for Delta Martin Barton and her husband, George F. Barton, whom were relatives of Darwin D. Martin. The house was the first to be built on the property, and is very visually similar to the main house, using the same type of bricks and incorporating many smaller versions of features found on the main house. The house features an asymmetric cruciform layout, hipped roof with wide overhanging eaves, a buff roman brick base with stucco cladding above the second floor sill line, art glass windows in punched openings on the first floor and in ribbons including the east and west ends of the second floor, wrapping the ends of the facade, a porch with a hipped roof on the south side of the house, a one-story wing with a hipped roof on the north side of the house, faux planters on the east and west sides of the south porch roof that contain hidden basins to catch rainwater drained via downspouts from the gutter, integrated window boxes below some of the first floor windows, stone sills, and a front entrance that is turned 90 degrees from the street. The house’s interior features a semi-open dining and living area in the central part of the house that sit adjacent to the porch to the south, with the kitchen in the rear one-story wing, and several bedrooms upstairs, with a brick fireplace, plaster walls, wooden built-ins, wood trim, and wood floors.The house was home to Martin’s sister and brother-in-law for quite some time, until the Martin family abandoned the complex in 1937, and then languished with the rest of the complex, being acquired by the city due to back taxes in 1946, and sold to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo, which intended to convert the complex into a summer retreat for priests, in 1951. The house was sold in 1955, to architect Sebastian Tauriello, whom worked hard to save the architecturally significant and by-then endangered property, hoping the house would avoid the fate that had befallen the Larkin Administration Building five years prior. The house was rented out, with the carriage house, pergola, and conservatory to the west demolished and the yard sold, and two uninspired apartment buildings with slapped-on Colonial Revival-style trim known as Jewett Gardens Apartments, were built to the rear of the house. In 1967, the University at Buffalo purchased the house, utilizing the main house as the university president’s residence, with the Barton House and Gardener’s Cottage being parceled off, both converted to function as independent single-family houses. A series of private owners made slight alterations to the house to modernize it for modern living, but the exterior remained remarkably well-preserved. In 1975, the house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and in 1986, was listed as a National Historic Landmark. In 1992, the nonprofit Martin House Restoration Corporation was founded with the goal of eventually restoring the historically and architecturally significant complex, and opening it as a museum. In 1994, the Barton House was the first part of the complex purchased by the foundation, with the rest of the complex being acquired by 2006, with major restoration work being carried out between 2007 and 2017. Today, the restored Darwin D. Martin House complex serves as a museum, allowing visitors to experience one of the largest Prairie-style complexes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, faithfully restored to its circa 1907 appearance, giving visitors a sense of the genius and design philosophy of Wright. |
| 撮影日 | 2022-08-13 14:43:19 |
| 撮影者 | w_lemay , Chicago, IL, United States |
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| 撮影地 | Buffalo, New York, United States 地図 |