File:Charles W. Goodyear House, Delaware Avenue, Bryant, Buffalo, NY - 52630751249.jpg

English: Built in 1903, this Chateauesque and Beaux Arts-style mansion was designed by Edward B. Green and William S. Wicks for Charles W. Goodyear, a prominent lawyer, businessman, and industrialist whom owned the Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad, Buffalo and Susquehanna Coal and Coke Company, Great Southern Railroad Company, Goodyear Lumber Co., and the New Orleans Great Northern Railroad Company, as well as being the director of the Marine National Bank and the General Railway Signal Company. Charles Goodyear and his wife Ella Portia Conger Goodyear lived in the house until their respective deaths in 1911 and 1940, respectively. Ella Goodyear hosted King Albert I of Belgium, along with his wife Queen Elisabeth of Bavaria and son Prince Leopold in the house in 1919, during their official visit to the United States. After Ella’s death, the house was sold to the Hospital Service Corporation and the Western New York Medical plan, also known as Blue Cross Corporation, which left most of the house intact while adapting it for usage as an office building. The house was then sold in 1950 to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo, which converted the house into Bishop McMahon High School, which saw the alteration of the interior and exterior of the house to accommodate classrooms, locker rooms, and other school facilities, which involved the addition of a substantial two-story modernist red brick wing to the south and west side of the house. Sometime after 1961 but before the school’s closure, the front portico was closed in to create additional space for the school. The house was utilized for this purpose until 1988, when it was sold to the Women & Children’s Hospital of Buffalo, and converted into the Robert B. Adam Education Center, which housed various programs, including a children’s daycare, in the building. The house then was sold to became home to Oracle Charter School in 2005, which renovated the house and remained in the building until it folded in 2018. The house was then purchased and intended to be converted into a boutique hotel, with renovation work presently ongoing. The house features a red flemish bond brick exterior with a steeply pitched hipped roof with copper cresting and festoon trim around the edges of the box gutter, dentils at the eaves, dormers with pediments and decorative stone trim, quoins, stone trim and belt coursing, balconies on the outer bays of the front facade, a central doric portico with grouped columns and a stone base, brick chimneys, a decorative surround at the north entry door, which features an arched transom, a red brick rear carriage house, and a stone base. The house is a contributing structure in the Delaware Avenue Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.