File:Thomas M. Moore House, Buffalo, New York - 20211021.jpg

English: Thomas M. Moore House, 76 Summer Street, Buffalo, New York, October 2021. A handsome three-story residence erected in 1873, the Moore House is somewhat unusual among the ranks of Second Empire architecture in that the prescribed red brick on the exterior walls is eschewed here in favor of clapboard siding over a wood frame. Aside from that, however, the aesthetic is pretty textbook: paired segmental-arched windows on the second floor come framed by pilaster strips and prominent window heads that are adorned in turn with keystones and cutout patterns, and of course, there's a tall mansard roof faced with fishscale shingles, undergirded by ornate paired brackets, and pierced with round-arched dormers. Thomas Middlebrook Moore (1839-1900), the house's original owner, served in various executive capacities (most prominently, as superintendent of repairs) for the Anchor Line of lakegoing steamships. The house remained in the possession of his family for neat three-quarters of a century thereafter: after he died, his wife Lorain continued living in the house until her own death at an advanced age in 1934, whereupon it became the home of their by-then-widowed daughter Kate Sherman, who herself died in 1946.