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English: The Derrick-Muller House, 282 Summer Street, Buffalo, New York, July 2021. One of the latest known works of prolific Buffalo "society architect" Charles Day Swan, the Derrick-Muller House dates to 1899. By this stage in his career, Swan had begun to move on from the Shingle Style - long his specialty, but by that time increasingly passé - into other aesthetics that had become popular in the interim, particularly the Colonial Revival, of which this house is an example, as attested by the keystone lintels above the windows and the Ionic pilaster strips framing the façade. Aside from that, the French Renaissance is another obvious influence that comes into play especially on the roof: hipped, steeply pitched, and almost mansard-like with its trio of round-top dormers. The side entrance, invisible from this angle, is framed by a segmental-arched entablature. The house spent its first two decades of existence being passed down through the ownership of multiple members of the same family: its first owner, George W. Derrick (1861-1902), was an up-and-coming figure in Buffalo's business community (he was the district manager for the National Biscuit Company) before his sudden and unexpected death at the age of 41 while on vacation at Shelter Island. After that, his wife Mary (1863-1906) and her father, the Rev. Darius Muller (1838-1909), the retired pastor of Grace Methodist Episcopal Church on Michigan Avenue (no longer extant), continued living in the house until their respective deaths. The remaining Derrick children finally sold the house out of the family some time around 1916.