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English: The Christ W. Fedders House, 105 Niagara Falls Boulevard, Buffalo, New York, October 2022. Built in 1928, this is a particularly early yet quite typical example of what would eventually come to be called the Minimal Traditional school of architecture - a style that, in the period immediately before and after the Second World War, would reach a prominent place of middle-class residential architecture of America's newly developing suburbs, largely through the help of Federal Housing Administration-insured loans. Aesthetically speaking, these homes typically consisted of simplified and stripped-down versions of the period-revival styles that were popular among upper-class homes around the same time, tops on the list of which is the Tudor Revival, which is exemplified here by an asymmetrical façade that features multiple overlapping gables, an entrance set off-center and framed by ornamental masonry work in light-colored stone contrasting with the brown brick that comprises the bulk of the exterior, and a prominent chimney dominating the left side of the building. Despite the house's aforementioned date of construction, which was given in documentation by the National Register of Historic Places for the University Park Historic District (of which it is a contributing property), there is no record of any owner or occupant until 1933, when the Buffalo City Directory lists it as the address of Christ William Fedders (1876-1951), the German-born vice-president of the Fedders Manufacturing Company in the Black Rock section of the city who is most notable as the co-inventor of the world's first water-cooled automobile radiator. Fedders lived in the house with his family until the death of his wife Emma in 1946.