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English: The Louis E. Moschel House, 70 Huntley Road, Buffalo, New York, December 2021. One of the first houses to be built in the section of the city that was originally called Cleveland Hill and now better known as Treehaven or Judges' Row, the Moschel House was erected in 1926 and is an example of Colonial Revival architecture that stands out from its neighbors, which are mostly Tudor Revival or Minimal Traditional in style. Here we see a classic brick-veneer façade, side-gabled roof, three-bay-wide symmetrical façade with shutter-framed, six-over-six sash windows, Classical detailing at the entrance in the form of a swan's-neck pediment, and - most interestingly of all - quarter-circular windows framing an exterior chimney on the south lateral elevation, a feature more common to the Dutch Colonial style. Like many of its neighbors, Cleveland Hill Properties marketed 70 Huntley to potential buyers as a stop on the annual "Home Beautiful Tours" that were put together by local newspapers (first the Courier-Express and later the Evening News) as a way of showcasing the best of the area's "showpieces of modern home building art". Visitors to the house on the 1926 iteration of the tour would have seen the house framed by a "perfect landscaping of shrubs, evergreens and full-grown elm trees" and impeccably decorated with furnishings on loan from almost a dozen local companies, and many of them got their first look at then-new technologies such as the electric refrigerator in the kitchen and an automatic thermostat installed by the Minneapolis Heat Regulator Company. The house proved such a hit that it was removed from the tour after only three days, when it was purchased on the spot by Louis E. Moschel (1887-1964), an executive (and one of the namesake "sons") in the meatpacking firm of Jacob Moschel's Sons, Inc. Moschel and his family lived in the house until 1933.