National Register of Historic Places
Ingleside Home
Buffalo, Erie County, New York
The record
- Listed
- May 25, 2018
- Type
- Building
- Address
- 70 Harvard Pl, Buffalo
- County
- Erie
- State
- New York
- Contributing resources
- 1 building
- Coordinates
- 42.91915, -78.86303
- Reference number
- 100002511
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The story
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Ingleside Home is a 1929 building at 70 Harvard Place in Buffalo, Erie County, in the Colonial Revival style, listed in the National Register in 2018. Frederick C. Backus was its architect; his firm was also builder and engineer.
Why it's listed
It was listed under criteria A and C, with local significance in architecture, health and medicine, and social history. Its period of significance spans 1869 to 1976, when it served as an institution for women's social reform and healthcare.
Physical character
The building has a concrete foundation, walls of brick and cast stone, a slate roof, and cast-stone lintels, sills, hoods and belt coursing. It has an H-shaped plan and a central entrance with fanlight, sidelights and a single-story portico with round wooden pilasters, plus hardwood floors and wood or marble fireplace mantels.
Historical context
Incorporated in 1869 as the Ingleside Home for Reclaiming the Erring, with Mary R. Stearns as first president, it settled by 1884 on the former Alberger estate after houses on Virginia and Seneca streets. It reoriented to hospital and clinic care for unwed mothers by 1923, demolished the Alberger house for a new building in 1929, and closed in 1976, when it was sold to the Community Action Organization.