Ella attended Nardin Academy (Miss Nardin’s at the time) and the Female Academy (now Buffalo Seminary). In 1876 he met and married Ella Portia Conger. He had a good reputation and served as Assistant District Attorney, and later as District Attorney. He practiced at a few different firms, one or two of them he himself started. The Goodyear Mansion.Ĭharles Waterhouse & Ella Portia GoodyearĬharles Goodyear was born in Cortland, NY in 1846 and came to Buffalo to study law in 1868. So here I am, all my reading is done and I’m ready to tell you about my Mother’s high school building. Since then, I’ve had three more requests to write about this mansion. Mom remembered that I knew a lot about it already and that I would enjoy learning more. It was then that I realized my mother was talking about her own high school that day. Several weeks later, I received an email from a woman asking me to write about her old high school, Bishop McMahon. Communication is often difficult for dementia patients. why not?” And the conversation moved off in a different direction. Just before the nursing homes closed down, she asked if I would ever write about “someone’s high school”. When I visited her (pre-COVID) Mom would always ask me to read my latest posts to her.

Back in December, our family moved her into a memory care unit. You see, my mother is a graduate of Bishop McMahon high school, class of 1957.

Each person had a different reason for asking me to do it. Now, focusing on one home is usually not my style, although I did it with the Humphrey House, but I had a handful of people ask me to write this one. Its future is set to include both corporate and market-rate apartments. It also includes Presidents, First Ladies, royalty, a health insurance company, and two schools. Its history includes one of Buffalo’s wealthiest families. The Goodyear Mansion at 888 Delaware Ave is one of those buildings. Sometimes a building seems to take on a life of its own. By Ellen Mika Zelasko | | Buffalo History, Buffalo People, Homes in Buffalo

Whisperings from the loggia