{"nrhp_refnum":"04000703","name":"Birge-Horton House","other_names":["Katharine Pratt Horton House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"477 Delaware Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Buffalo","county":"Erie County","state":"NY","lat":42.89728000000008,"lon":-78.87462999999997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-07-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A four-story Georgian Revival brick row house at 477 Delaware Avenue in Buffalo, Erie County, New York, designed by Green & Wicks in 1895 and part of a group of row houses known as The Midway.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is an outstanding and largely intact example of a Georgian Revival row house, one of a group unique in Buffalo. It was designed by Green & Wicks, the city's preeminent architectural firm of the period, and retains a high level of integrity inside and out. It is also tied to Katharine Pratt Horton, a prominent society hostess and club leader who lived there from 1906 until her death.","narrative":"Built in 1895-1896 on Delaware Avenue in Buffalo, this four-story brick row house is one of twelve surviving high-style homes in a group called The Midway. Green & Wicks, the city's leading architectural firm, designed it in the Georgian Revival style for Henry and Fanny Birge, of a wallpaper-manufacturing family. The facade has Flemish bond brickwork, stone quoins, carved lunettes and a semicircular porch with Ionic columns. Inside, a columned reception hall, a grand staircase open to a skylight, a library with a painted ceiling and original pantry cabinetry survive. After the Birges left, the house was rented to prominent tenants. Katharine Pratt Horton, a society hostess and leader of the local Daughters of the American Revolution chapter, moved in during 1906, bought it in 1920 and lived there until her death. The house is valued as an intact, distinguished example of Georgian Revival domestic architecture and its design draws on McKim, Mead & White prototypes.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1895-1954","architect_builder":"Green and Wicks, Architects of Buffalo, N.Y.","architectural_style":"Late 19th and Early 20th Century Revivals/Georgian Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Current function is listed as social/meeting hall; the top floor is a private apartment, and the interior retains much original detail.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:54.005991-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/04000703.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000703/ff1c0b4f83-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000703/ff1c0b4f83-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"TonyTheTiger","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Birge-Horton_House,_Buffalo,_New_York,_April_2009.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">TonyTheTiger</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Birge-Horton_House,_Buffalo,_New_York,_April_2009.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75317548","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birge-Horton_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4916208"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/erie-county/birge-horton-house-04000703/"}