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Today, probably the most beautiful home on Genesee Street, the Arnold House at 110, is another once expensive piece of residential Lockport property now off the tax rolls. It is also a hold-out from the crime and decay that has been allowed to overtake this once grand street. The house is now a part of the Grace Episcopal Church complex at Genesee and Cottage. It was built in 1908, by Mr. Arnold, a prominent Lockport businessman. Mr. Arnold died in 1930, his wife lived here until her death in 1948. Mrs. Arnold willed the property to the Women of Grace Church and it has been used for a variety of church functions ever since (and wonderfully maintained by the church community).
The drawing, quite faithful to the way the property looks today, is by Lockport artist JoAnn Furlong. It is included in a calendar of Lockport scenes published as a fund-raising activity of the Emmanuel United Methodist Church.
This drawing by Lockport artist Manning McCandlish, depicts the home of the Wallace Keep family during a period when there were nearly a hundred such great homes in Lockport. Many of these magnificient structures, if we're lucky, have been preserved at least on the outside by sale and conversion to homes for some non-profit organization. Such is the case with 305 High Street which was sold to the Lockport Presbyterian Home in 1967 following the death of Mrs. Keep. It is another prime piece of expensive Lockport property that has been removed from the tax rolls, but at least the outward appearance has been preserved.
The mansion was built in 1857 for Mr. Edward Ithcar Chase, brother of Mr.
Salmon P. Chase, who was the Secretary of the Treasury under President Abraham Lincoln.
It later was the home of Mr. Richard Crowley, a United States Congressman.
When Wallace Keep and his family lived here in the first part of the 20th Century it was a magnificent residence. A "carriage house" to the south has since been turned into a separate residence and property parcel.
Mr. Keep was a financial tycoon who would go to an office in Buffalo's banking district almost daily. The family spent much of the winter in the south. The mansion was large enough to easily accomodate the live-in staff of maids, housekeepers, and cooks with the gardener and chauffeur living in the upper floor of the nearby carriage house. It was a time of Lockport High Society and the Keep Family was very much a part of that circle. Remaining members of the Keep family now live in the Carolinas. The drawing is one of several great Lockport structures featured in an appointment calendar sold as a fund-raiser for Lockport's Emmanuel United Methodist Church.
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