Bronson C. Rumsey House

330 Delaware Avenue at Tracy Street

architect: Rose Brothers

owner: Bronson Case Rumsey
Children’s Aid Society (1943)

years built: 1863-1867

demolished: Sometime After 1943

In the forties an eastern architect, Upjohn, had been brought to Buffalo to build a prominent church. Now in the building boom of the late sixties that succeeded the Civil War, Buffalo architects built mansions in the impressive mansarded style, derived from the fashion of Second Empire Paris, and comparable to those being built in the East. Solid, pretentious, but dignified, such work contrasts with the more naïve exuberance of local builders.