page_title: Stephen Merrell Clement
section_title: Residence
hierarchical_section_title: Stephen Merrell Clement / Career / Residence
caption_attribution_description: English: The Greater w:Buffalo, New York w:American Red Cross in the w:Delaware Avenue Historic District (Buffalo, New York)
context_page_description: Stephen Merrell Clement or S. M. Clement, Jr. was an American banker, businessman and industrialist in Buffalo, New York.
context_section_description: In 1892, after his father died, his family moved into his father's former home at 737 Delaware Avenue.  When his father-in-law died in 1908, they inherited his house at 786 Delaware, which they torn down in 1911.  On that site, they again commissioned his friend, E.B. Green, to build him a palatial home at 786 Delaware Avenue, which was completed in 1913. The house, which cost $300,000 to erect, was donated by his widow to the American Red Cross in June 1941.  In 2017, The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and the American Red Cross, Western New York Chapter, announced that local developer and philanthropist John Yurtchuk would purchase the property at 786 Delaware Avenue and would donate the campus centerpiece, the Clement Residence, to the BPO as a gift to the orchestra's Crescendo Campaign. It now houses both the Red Cross and BPO administrative staffs. This gesture ranks among the biggest and most creative donations in the history of the BPO.
  In the 1890s, they bought property in East Aurora, then considered the countryside just outside of Buffalo. There they built a summer house and dairy farm, known as "Elmhurst" and later, "The Homestead."
caption: Clement Mansion, 786 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, New York
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