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24-574: The mansion was designed by the Buffalo architectural firm of Green & Wicks and built in 1891–1892. It is a 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 -story, two-bay, brownstone mansion in the Richardsonian Romanesque style. It features a short tower, smooth piers with decorated capitals, windows with transoms , carved tympanum , and deep-set windows. The 24 room home also has stained glass windows, oak flooring, an elevator, 12 fireplaces, and

48-607: A bachelor of architecture degree in 1878. Following his graduation, Green was the thir ? architect to be registered by the State University of New York . After graduation, Green worked as a junior architect with William Miller in Ithaca for three years while teaching at Cornell for one year. In 1880, along with William Sydney Wicks , an M.I.T. architecture graduate, he opened a practice in Auburn, New York , moving

72-472: A solarium . Also on the property is a contributing carriage house . The mansion features pierced and hand-carved woodwork, mosaics, stained glass and friezes. There are Tiffany light fixtures including decorative motifs with cherubs, peacocks, leaves, and shells. The home was built by Harrison F. Watson (1853-1904), an Erie roofing paper magnate and holder of U.S. Patents on gaskets and tubes. Harrison and his wife, Carrie Tracy, an avid gardener, lived in

96-811: A member of the Presbyterian Church , held office of trustee of the Buffalo Normal School , was organizing director of the Pan-American Exposition , president of the Buffalo Club (in 1899), trustee to the Buffalo Historical Society , on the board of The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy and a delegate to Syracuse Convention . Among his close friends were U.S. President Grover Cleveland and Cleveland's Secretary of War Daniel S. Lamont . He

120-484: A partnership with Major John Tyler, which continued for two years. From 1877 until 1882, Goodyear practiced alone until forming a partnership with Henry F. Allen (1837–1910) under the name Goodyear & Allen. In 1883, when Grover Cleveland became Governor of New York and stepped down from Cleveland, Bissell , and Sicard, Goodyear joined as a name partner. The firm was renamed Bissell , Sicard & Goodyear. The practice with Bissell, Sicard & Goodyear lasted for

144-596: A railroad to serve the operation and connect it to markets. Goodyear was also a director of Marine National Bank , and of General Railway Signal . Charles W. Goodyear was born in Cortland, New York , on October 15, 1846, to Dr. Bradley Goodyear (1816–1889), who had graduated from Geneva Medical College in 1845, and Esther P. ( née Kinne) Goodyear (1822–1907). Her ancestors came to the United States via Leyden, Holland , in 1635. A younger brother, Frank Henry ,

168-668: A year later to 69 Genesee Street in Buffalo, New York , in 1881. Through approximately 1940, Green was active in Buffalo, New York , where his work left a lasting impression on the city of Buffalo, and it includes such noteworthy structures as the Albright-Knox Art Gallery , Young Men's Christian Association Central Building , and Twentieth Century Club (1894); all three listed on the National Register of Historic Places . His public buildings include

192-708: The Buffalo Savings Bank , the Market Arcade, the Buffalo Crematory, and South Park High School, The First Presbyterian Church of Buffalo , Kibler High School , Tonawanda Municipal Building , and Dayton Art Institute (1930) among others. In Canada, Green made the designs for several structures owned by the Ontario Power Company at Niagara Falls, Ontario . He also designed and built many private residences, including

216-488: The Charles W. Goodyear Residence , Granger Mansion, and his own residence at 180 Summer Street, which is not visible from the road. During his 72-year career, he designed more than 370 major structures. More than 160 of his Buffalo buildings survive today. After the death of his partner Wicks in 1919, he continued the practice with his son, Edward B. Green Jr., and then with R.M. James from 1936 to 1950. In 1887, Green

240-526: The Great Southern Lumber Company sawmill, which was the largest sawmill in the world, in southeast Louisiana, and developed the company town of Bogalusa , where workers and their supervisors and families would live. It was designed and built from the ground up, to include hotels, classes of housing, churches, schools, YMCA and YWCA, and similar services. To bring harvested trees to the sawmill and transport processed lumber to markets,

264-707: The National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It is located in the West Sixth Street Historic District . [REDACTED] Media related to Watson-Curtze Mansion at Wikimedia Commons Edward Brodhead Green Edward Brodhead Green (May 10, 1855 – February 2, 1950), very often referred to as E. B. Green , was a major American architect from New York state . Green was born in Utica, New York , on May 10, 1855. He attended Cornell University in Ithaca, New York , graduating with

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288-688: The New Orleans Great Northern Railroad Company ; and director of the Marine National Bank , and General Railway Signal . On March 23, 1876, Goodyear married Ella Portia Conger (1853–1940), of Collins Center, New York . The family lived at the Charles W. Goodyear House , built in 1903 by architect E.B. Green of Green & Wicks, at 888 Delaware Avenue in Buffalo. Together, they had four children, all born in Buffalo: Goodyear,

312-555: The Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad, among other companies they owned. He appointed William H. Sullivan as the general manager of the Great Southern Lumber Company and town boss of Bogalusa. After the city was incorporated, Sullivan served as mayor until his death in 1929. At various points in his career, Goodyear was president of: Goodyear Lumber Co., Buffalo & Susquehanna Coal and Coke Co., Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad, Great Southern Lumber Company, and

336-762: The Goodyears established the New Orleans Great Northern Railroad , which connected Bogalusa to the national railroad network and to New Orleans. In 1906, the brothers extended the Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad from Wellsville to Buffalo, nearly 90 miles. Frank Goodyear did not live to see the Bogalusa sawmill completed, dying in 1907 of Bright's disease , shortly before the Panic of 1907 . The Great Southern Lumber Company sawmill began operation in 1908. Goodyear took over for Frank at

360-616: The home with their daughter, Winifred, until 1923. In 1923, Frederic Felix Curtze (1858-1941), president of the Erie Trust Company, purchased the home and lived at the property until his death in 1941, when his family donated the property and it officially became a museum. Today, the Mansion is owned by the Erie County Historical Society and is operated as a historic house museum . It was added to

384-434: The late 1890s as the lumber business expanded, Goodyear joined his brother's Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad , which Frank had created in 1893 by the merger and consolidation of several smaller logging railroads. When Goodyear joined, Frank stepped down as president of the railroad and assumed the positions of first vice president and chairman of the board . Charles Goodyear became second vice president and general manager of

408-505: The next four years. From January 1, 1875, until October 15, 1877, Goodyear served as assistant district attorney under District Attorney of Erie County Daniel N. Lockwood . Elected to the United States Congress in 1876, Lockwood resigned the office of district attorney in the autumn of 1877, and Governor Lucius Robinson appointed Goodyear as DA to fill the unexpired term until January 1, 1878. Goodyear gave up

432-450: The practice of law in 1887 to form a lumber company with his brother, Frank H. Goodyear, under the firm name F. H. & C. W. Goodyear. They invested in timberlands, lumber mills, coal, and railroads in remote areas of Pennsylvania and New York. They bought up large tracts of timberland that were considered inaccessible for harvest, because the lands were isolated and away from the streams that were typically used to transport logs. To access

456-515: The properties and local sawmills, using the railroads to transport lumber to market. In the early 20th century, they used this same strategy in the South. They bought several hundred thousand acres of virgin pine forest in Louisiana and Mississippi, built the largest sawmill in the world, and developed the company town of Bogalusa, Louisiana, for the workers to support their operation. They also built

480-726: The railroad, while Marlin Olmsted became president. Between 1901 and 1905, the brothers moved South, purchasing 300,000 acres of virgin yellow pine timberland in southeastern Louisiana and southwestern Mississippi , near the southern end of the Pearl River . In 1902, the brothers chartered the Great Southern Lumber Company in Pennsylvania, establishing their offices in the Ellicott Square Building in downtown Buffalo. The brothers began construction of

504-422: The timber, they built railroad spurs for transport, and local sawmills to process the trees into lumber. In many areas, they built company towns for workers in the isolated sawmills. They achieved great financial success with these strategies. The Goodyears were the world's largest manufacturers of hemlock lumber, with an annual output around 200,000,000 board feet of hemlock, and nearly as much in hardwood. In

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528-664: Was born in 1849. Goodyear was educated at Cortland Academy , Wyoming Academy, and in East Aurora, New York , when his father was practicing medicine there. As boys, both Charles and Frank worked at Root & Keating's tannery . In 1868, Goodyear moved to Buffalo to study law in the offices of Laning & Miller, and later with John C. Strong . Goodyear was admitted to the New York State Bar Association in 1871 and began his own practice in Buffalo. His practice continued until 1875, when he formed

552-541: Was married to Harriet Edson (1858–1935). Together, they were the parents of: Green died in Buffalo on February 2, 1950, after a two-week illness. He was buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery . Charles W. Goodyear Charles Waterhouse Goodyear (October 15, 1846 – April 16, 1911) was an American lawyer, businessman, lumberman , and member of the prominent Goodyear family of New York. Based in Buffalo, New York, along with his brother, Frank , Charles

576-462: Was the founder and president of several companies, including the Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad , Great Southern Lumber Company , Goodyear Lumber Company, Buffalo & Susquehanna Coal & Coke Company, and the New Orleans Great Northern Railroad Company . In the late 19th century, his brother and he were highly successful in harvesting timber from formerly isolated areas of Pennsylvania and New York. They built railroad spurs to provide access to

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