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English: The Cilley-Rea House, 152-156 Bryant Street, Buffalo, New York, December 2020. Constructed in 1889, the house is an excellent example of Romanesque Revival residential architecture of the type that was popular in its day around Buffalo's upper-class precincts. Here we see a steeply-pitched hipped roof fronted on the Bryant Street façade with both a secondary gable at right (featuring decorative woodwork in a diaper pattern near its peak, with a spacious round-arched window below) and a conical-roofed, finial-topped turret at left decorated with terra cotta cable molding and crowned with a modillion cornice to match that on the central portion of the façade. Unusually for the neighborhood (and unexpectedly given its appearance from the exterior), this has always been a two-family house, with side-by-side units. 152 Bryant, the left half of the building from the perspective of this photograph, was originally home to Bradbury Cilley (1860-1902), the New Hampshire-born proprietor of the Buffalo Glue Company, while #156 at right was where William Rea (1853-1930), a produce merchant at the Elk Street Market, lived. However, neither of these men, nor many of the subsequent residents of the house in its early days, continued living there for long.