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English: The Frank Hamlin House, 420 Franklin Street at Virginia Street, Buffalo, New York, February 2020. A handsome example of the French Second Empire style erected in 1877, the house boasts an asymmetrical plan that's atypical of the style, floor-to-ceining windows on the ground floor topped with eyebrow window heads in terra cotta, sawtooth courses in the masonry that stretch across the width of the façade, and, most prominently, a projecting center pavilion with a segmental-arched entrance and, above, a tower with pyramid roof. Scion of one of the most prominent families of 19th-century Buffalo aristocrats, Frank Hamlin (1846-1926) got his start working for his father at, and eventually rose to the office of president of, the Buffalo Grape Sugar Company, manufacturer of glucose for the medical industry. The house seen here served as a rooming house from the time of Hamlin's death, and as of 1979 (the date of its listing on the National Register of Historic Places as contributing property to the Allentown Historic District), it had recently been converted to offices. It was the headquarters of the law firm of Siegel, Kelleher & Kahn for many years and is now home to that of Andrews, Bernstein, Maranto & Nicotra.