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English: The Quinby-Hazel House, 37 Hodge Avenue, Buffalo, New York, June 2021. A contributing property to the Elmwood East Historic District designed by locally-born architect Charles Day Swan, the most remarkable architectural feature of this two-and-a-half-story, cross-gabled Queen Anne residence is the unusual detailing on the front gable: divided into two horizontal segments that each project outward from the elevation below with modillion brackets as support, it contains a quadruple window topped with leaded multi-light transoms in the bottom half, and above a very narrow round-arched window - almost reminiscent of a Gothic arrowloop - crowned with decorative shingle work in an arch shape. Below all of this is a bowed bay window on the second floor containing still more leaded glass in its side transoms, and a handsome pedimented front porch bedecked with spindle balustrades and foliate relief carvings. The house has a longstanding connection with Buffalo's legal and judicial communities: its first owner, who lived there from its completion in 1889 until his death, was George T. Quinby (1849-1895), a Monroe County-born schoolteacher-turned-lawyer-turned-Erie County District Attorney, who served in the post from 1886 until health problems (the same ones that ultimately led to his death) forced his resignation in 1894. After the Quinbys' tenure there, the house passed in quick succession through the hands of a number of different owners before its purchase in 1902 by the man who was by far its longest-tenured resident: Judge John R. Hazel (1860-1951), the U.S. District Court justice who's most notable historically as the man who administered the Oath of Office to Theodore Roosevelt after the assassination of William McKinley. He and his family lived there until just a few years before his death.