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English: The Bemis-Ransom House, 267 North Street, Buffalo, New York, January 2020. The work of the firm of Silsbee and Marling, the house is a particularly early (c. 1886) manifestation of the Queen Anne style in Buffalo; its intricate detailing is most apparent on the upper stories, featuring finials in the shape of mountain lions crowning the large frontal gable as well as the Dutch gables on the sides (the work of noted terra cotta artist Henry Plasschaert) as well as elegant terra cotta ornamentation above the roundel window facing North Street. Round arches with decorative keystones are another recurring motif, featured in the band of windows on the upper story, the entrance portico, and elsewhere. Original owner John Muzzy Bemis (1835-1922) was a lumberman who made his fortune supplying wooden railroad ties to the Erie Railroad before coming to Buffalo in 1878 to found a wholesale lumber firm. He lived in the house until his move to Warren, Pennsylvania in 1891. Subsequent owners included Dr. and Mrs. Robert F. Campbell, who lived and operated a medical practice in the house from 1891 through 1906; Captain Joseph Thomas Jones, a Civil War hero turned oilman and railroad magnate whose family owned the house until 1955, and real estate magnate Philip W. Ransom, who lived there with his wife until both of their deaths in 1981. The house is now the law offices of the firm of Collins & Collins.