104 Klinewoods Road
Year Built: 1932
Architect: Ray H. Bennett Company
Style: Colonial vernacular
Relatively inexpensive "Kit houses," assembled from standardized parts and designs became an affordable alternative to architect-designed homes as the demand for housing on the part of middle class buyers increased in the 1930s and thereafter. All the oak woodwork and floors, roofing and brass fittings of 104 Klinewoods and its twin at 203 East Upland Road were shipped by the Bennett Company whose work is archived at the North Tonawanda Historical Society Museum. Other kit houses in the Arts and Crafts, Bungalow, and Colonial Revival styles are scattered in the Village awaiting identification and their stories. Cornell physics professor Guy Grantham and his wife were the first owners of this house; their granddaughter told the present owner, your village historian, that eminent Cornell physicists gathered for poker in the dining room (see Manhattan Project physicists).
Year Built: 1932
Architect: Ray H. Bennett Company
Style: Colonial vernacular
Relatively inexpensive "Kit houses," assembled from standardized parts and designs became an affordable alternative to architect-designed homes as the demand for housing on the part of middle class buyers increased in the 1930s and thereafter. All the oak woodwork and floors, roofing and brass fittings of 104 Klinewoods and its twin at 203 East Upland Road were shipped by the Bennett Company whose work is archived at the North Tonawanda Historical Society Museum. Other kit houses in the Arts and Crafts, Bungalow, and Colonial Revival styles are scattered in the Village awaiting identification and their stories. Cornell physics professor Guy Grantham and his wife were the first owners of this house; their granddaughter told the present owner, your village historian, that eminent Cornell physicists gathered for poker in the dining room (see Manhattan Project physicists).
