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English: The Harry A. Smith House, 721 Eggert Road, Buffalo, New York, February 2022. Located on the western border of the Buffalo neighborhood known variously as Treehaven or Judges' Row, the Smith House is a fine example of the principles behind what's now called the "Minimal Traditional" school of residential architecture. The period in which the style's popularity was at its apex - roughly the early 1930s through the early 1950s - was typified by more inexpensively constructed and therefore more architecturally streamlined houses that cribbed eclectically from styles then popular among the upper classes. Especially in the earlier part of that range of years, these stylistic inspirations prominently included the Tudor Revival, whence the most eye-catching detail on this 1938-vintage residence: the extremely steeply-pitched entrance gable set off asymmetrically on the left side of the façade. The gable's wide, vergeboard-like soffit and decorative brickwork are also textbook features. Ontario County native Harry Albert Smith (1895-1969) was a World War I Army veteran-turned-postal clerk with the Railway Mail Service who lived in the house from its completion until at least the late 1950s.