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English: The Perren-Emery-Mattick House, 290 Highland Avenue at Norwood Avenue, Buffalo, New York, February 2021. An excellent early (1889) example of the Queen Anne style that would come to prominence in upper-class residential architecture over the next quarter-century or so, the most striking feature of this house is the unusual corner turret, which is octagonal, double-roofed (the lower of which having a distinctive flared bottom), and faced in ornamental shingles, yet is more modest in scale than you more typically see with the style. Notably, most of the second-story exterior of the turret is occupied by a quintet of tall, narrow windows. Elsewhere, the asymmetrical projecting double gable on the Highland Avenue side of the building sports a small recessed porch with balconet and is undergirded by mullions flanked by a pair of scroll-sawn end brackets, while Classical influences come into play on the full-width front porch, namely paired Doric columns around the outer perimeter and a dentil row across the top, just below a shallow-pitched hipped roof. 290 Highland has been owned by a succession of Buffalonians who are notable in a wide variety of different fields: for its first eight years it was home to Abraham E. Perren (1856-1915), owner of an eponymous carriage, sleigh and harness factory on Pearl Street; then came Edward K. Emery (1851-1919), an East Aurora-born attorney and former New York State Assemblyman who was serving as the judge of the Erie County Court at the time he lived here, and would eventually be named to a seat on the State Supreme Court. However, by far its longest-tenured residents were the Mattick family: father John G. Mattick (1858-1954) was a shipbuilder who rose to the post of superintendent of the Great Lakes Transit Company, and son Dr. Walter L. Mattick (1885-1969) was for many years Chief of Radiology and Head and Neck Surgery at Roswell Park Cancer Institute. They lived in the house from 1908 until their respective deaths.