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English: The Hall-Wright-Bass House, 483 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, New York, March 2022. One of the so-called "Midway Row Houses" on Delaware Avenue in the NRHP-listed Allentown Historic District, the house was erected in 1893 to a design by the local firm of Marling & Johnson that's an interesting if somewhat awkward hybrid between the Queen Anne and Neoclassical styles. The ground floor is clearly an exercise in the latter with its smooth stone cladding, arched entrance with rosette reliefs in the spandrels, and engaged Ionic column between the twin windows, but the asymmetry of the façade and the two-story bowed bay window on the upper floors testify strongly to the former (sadly, from this perspective the intricately carved lion's-head and swag reliefs at its top are invisible behind the tree branches). The house was built for insurance agent Edward Augustus Hall (1867-1898), partner and namesake "son" in the firm of Nathaniel Hall & Son as well as a National Guard batallion adjutant and lieutenant, serving with the 65th Regiment. Hall lived there until his death, after which his heirs rented the place out to a revolving door of short-term lessees. The first of these was Albert J. Wright (1858-1940), a banker and commodities trader who lived previously and more famously at the Stick-style house on Linwood Avenue that would much later be home to the Beau Fleuve bed & Breakfast. Wright stayed for three years before moving across the street in 1900 to the former S. Douglas Cornell mansion. Next was attorney Lyman L. Bass (1876-1955), whose sojourn lasted for the next two years. Much later, the building was connected to the neighboring Dr. Bernard Bartow House, which together served as home of a series of upscale restaurants: the venerable Lord Chumley's from the late 1970s through the mid-2000s, and The Stillwater and the Rowhouse Bakery for brief periods after that.