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English: The Hawkins-Hodge House, 301 Linwood Avenue, Buffalo, New York, October 2020. One of the oldest extant houses on Linwood Avenue, this two-and-a-half-story red-brick beauty is an architectural Frankenstein's monster, placing elements of the Queen Anne style (courtesy of a later renovation; witness the ornamentation on the front gable and the pediment above the entrance portico) onto an earlier Italianate substrate (exemplified by round-arched second-floor windows with projecting window heads, segmental arches on the first floor crowning the windows and the front entrance; corbelling on the chimney stack, not seen here). The house's first occupant was Cattraugus County-born attorney Oscar F. Hawkins, about which little biographical information is available; he lived there from 1873 until 1876, after which the house passed through the hands of no fewer than three owners in five years. Another long-tenured owner from 310 Linwood's early days was Frederick Augustus Hodge (1846-1917), a clerk and later executive at the roofing materials company owned by his brother Dwight (1841-1920); he moved in from the now-demolished house next door in 1882 and stayed until shortly after the death in quick succession of his father and young son, in 1892, whereupon he and his surviving family moved to Kansas.