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English: The Roy Brown House, 293 Starin Avenue at Wingate Avenue, Buffalo, New York, January 2021. This is an example of the so-called "Craftsman Dutch" style that was popular in residential architecture around the time that this house and its neighbors were going up in Buffalo's North Park neighborhood. As its name indicates, the style combines influences from the Dutch Colonial Revival (manifested here in the form of a sprawling gambrel roof, shuttered windows, and strict bilateral symmetry on the façade) and the Arts and Crafts movement (whence the clip at the peak of the gable on the Starin Avenue side, as well as the widely overhanging eaves with exposed rafter tails). Note also the triangular forms that come to the forefront in the canopy above the main entrance facing Wingate Avenue. The house was built in 1923 for Roy E. Brown (1878-1957), who at the time was a salesman working for the Quale Garage Company, a Ford dealership. However, a c. 1925 career change saw him accepting the post of district superintendent of the F. W. Woolworth chain of discount stores. Brown moved out of the house in 1932, and the 1940 Census records him as living in Olean with his widower son, Morlyn, and his children.