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English: Cottage Street Lofts, 118 Cottage Street, Buffalo, New York, June 2021. A particularly exuberant example of the Queen Anne style so favored by the architectural firm of Swan & Faulkner that was active in the Buffalo area around the turn of the century, here we have a twelve-unit apartment building that - according to a January 1896 article in the Buffalo Morning Express announcing its imminent opening - "has the appearance of a private mansion, the usual external signs of a 'flat' being wholly absent" and "is a model of good arrangement, good taste, and good materials... built of brownstone and Jewettville pressed brick". As usual with the style, the most eye-catching feature is the corner tower; round, conically-roofed, and rather modest in scale, it's circumnavigated by five-light windows. But notice also more subtle details like the varied siding materials (fishscale shingles on the gables and tower contrasting with brick elsewhere), the elegant scroll brackets undergirding the projecting gables and dormer window, and the Classical detailing (and still more scroll brackets) on the full-width front porch, a symmetrical affair where Ionic columns come both singly and in pairs. The building was known as the Worthington Apartments originally and continued to be so throughout most of the 20th century - the Building-Structure Inventory Form filed in 1974 with the New York State Division for Historic Preservation refers to it by that name and also notes its by then dilapidated condition; vacant, fire-damaged and open to the elements. In 2006, current owner Wes Brown purchased the building along with the two similarly derelict houses to its north, restored them top to bottom, and rechristened them as the Cottage Street Lofts.