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In December 2020, it was announced that attorney Ross Cellino purchased the Knox Mansion for $ 2,470,000 million from Computer Task Group in June 2020. Cellino announced that he planned to make the house the new corporate headquarters for Cellino Law, the law firm he formed after the breakup of
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to replace an older Italianate house that stood on the property with a new residence. The resulting structure was an extravagant stone mansion built over the course of three years that was completed in 1918. The house was designed in the French Renaissance style with a symmetrical façade and a
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The Montefiore Club added a 20,000-square-foot addition to the building to house athletic facilities to the rear of the building, which included a gym, locker rooms, and three squash courts. In 1978,
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Before Grace Millard Knox and her children moved into the Gilbert designed mansion on Delaware Avenue, they successively lived at 414 Porter Avenue (a Queen Anne style residence designed by
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U-shaped floor plan. The projecting side pavilions flank a recessed central elevation with French doors on the ground floor topped with round arches.
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north of Summer Street. The Knoxes lived at 1035 Delaware Avenue previously. Grace hired New York City architect
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After the house was completed, Grace moved in with her three children,
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New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
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For the Seymour H. Knox I Mansion in Buffalo, New York mansion, see
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Historic district contributing properties in Erie County, New York
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Delaware Avenue Historic District (Buffalo, New York)
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Knox Mansion (Buffalo, New York)

Renaissance Revival
Delaware Avenue
Buffalo
NY
Coordinates
42°54′22″N 78°52′21″W / 42.90620°N 78.87262°W / 42.90620; -78.87262
C. P. H. Gilbert
Buffalo, New York
C. P. H. Gilbert
Seymour H. Knox
Delaware Avenue Historic District
née
Seymour H. Knox
F. W. Woolworth Company
Frank W. Woolworth
Delaware Avenue
C. P. H. Gilbert
Seymour Jr.
CTG
Cellino & Barnes
Milton Beebe
1035 Delaware Avenue
Edgar Eugene Joralemon
Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo
414 Porter Avenue (c. 1890)
467 Linwood Avenue (1890)
1035 Delaware Avenue (1904)
1035 Delaware Avenue

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