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English: The McCann-DeFillippo House, 20 Norwood Avenue, Buffalo, New York, July 2020. Built in 1892 to a design by an unknown architect, the house is Queen Anne style played to the hilt, with a prominent octagonal turret dominating the south side of the façade that's pierced with narrow lattice windows and whose tent roof is covered in high-end architectural shingles, a classic asymmetrical porch in front supported by Tuscan columns and topped by a balustraded ornamental balcony, and siding of sawtooth shingles. John A. McCann (1850-1908) was its original resident, a Batavia-born merchant turned publisher who operated the weekly Buffalo Tidings newspaper, but he and his wife Chloe did not live in the house for long: it's recorded as being vacant as of 1896, and the McCann family's move to Philadelphia appears to have occurred about the same time. Subsequent residents include stove manufacturer Marshall J. Root (1869-1936; resided in the house 1898-99), businessman and real estate investor Clark Ingham (1863-1954; resided there 1901-06), civil engineer Edmond Hayes (1851-1931; resided there 1906-1921), engraver Thomas Heath (1877-1943; resided there 1921-1935); Bessie Woods (1891-1971; resided there 1944-66), who rented the second and third floors as a rooming house, and finally Walter Klein, whose tenure as its owner was short but disastrous: his grand plan to transform the house into a "French chateau" was not only inconsistent with its architectural style but was also left unfinished; by the time the bank foreclosed on him in 1969, the house was basically stripped. Current owner Dominic DeFillippo was the one responsible for restoring the house to its former glory, a process covered extensively in Buffalo Spree magazine in 2001 and 2003.