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325 Summer Street, Buffalo, NY 14222

$899,000
: 5
BD
: 5
BA
: 6,127
SqFt

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Sold Price: $899,000
Status: CLOSED
Days on Market: 9
Closing Date: Aug 31, 2026
MLS#: B1683074
Subtype: Residential
Style: Greek Revival, Historic/Antique
Architectural Style: Greek Revival, Historic/Antique
Year Built: 1891
Bedrooms: 5
Bathrooms: 5
Full Baths: 3
Half Baths: 2
Living Area: 6,127
Lot Size: 9,600
Acres: 0.22
MLS Area Major: Buffalo City

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Property Description

Over a century ago, one of the country's first breakfast cereal titans built himself a home worthy of the Gilded Age. It's six thousand square feet of brick and walnut and marble, rising up on the corner of Norwood Avenue and Summer Street like a declaration, like a monument built not just for a cereal baron but for the ages. Step through the enormous wood front door and understand immediately that craftsmanship is a word that has been cheapened, degraded, run through the modern mill and spat out as a marketing term. Here it means something. The walnut floors in the living room. The marble in the foyer. The moldings in the dining room, climbing the walls in their plaster splendor. The house has lived many lives in its 124 years — private mansion, music school, speech clinic, private mansion again-cycling through Buffalo's own century of boom and retrenchment and renaissance, never falling backwards and standing exactly where Ellsworth planted it, on this tree-lined street in the Elmwood Village, immovable, unapologetic, magnificent. Five bedrooms. Three full bathrooms and two half bathrooms. A chef's kitchen of serious scale. A grand living room with a pool table and a fireplace and enough space for all your friends and family. A terrace. An in-ground pool and hot tub. And outside, the Elmwood Village — the restaurants, the shops, Kleinhan's with its symphonies by Mozart and Brahms and the AGK with its de Koonings and its Rothkos — all of it walkable, all of it there, humming away just outside the thick, expertly-laid brick walls. They are not building houses like this anymore. But occasionally, one does get offered for sale.

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Interior Features: Ceiling Fan(s), Den, Separate/Formal Dining Room, Entrance Foyer, Eat-in Kitchen, Separate/Formal Living Room, Granite Counters, Kitchen Island, Natural Woodwork, Bath in Primary Bedroom, Programmable Thermostat
Exterior Features: Concrete Driveway, Deck, Enclosed Porch, Fully Fenced, Pool, Porch, Patio
Taxes: $16,818
Property Description: Greek Revival, Historic/Antique
Flooring: Carpet, Ceramic Tile, Hardwood, Marble, Tile, Varies
Appliances: Built-In Refrigerator, Double Oven, Dryer, Dishwasher, Exhaust Fan, Freezer, Disposal, Gas Oven, Gas Range, Gas Water Heater, Microwave, Refrigerator, Range Hood, Wine Cooler, Washer
Heating: Gas, Radiator(s)
Stories: 2
Levels: Two
Roof: Asphalt
Foundation: Stone
Pool Type: In Ground
Parking Features: Attached, Electricity, Garage, Garage Door Opener
Garage Spaces: 2
School District: Buffalo