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English: The William H. Boughton House, 40 Vermont Street at Columbus Parkway, Buffalo, New York, March 2022. A contributing property to the NRHP-listed Prospect Hill Historic District, the house was built in 1892 to a design by Boughton himself, a noted architect in the Buffalo area who here has conceived a freewheeling take on the Colonial Revival whose most distinctive and unusual feature is its chimney, made of brick, clad with rock-faced stone at its base, and connected to the dormer that pierces the hip roof at the center of the façade with an iron bar adorned with curvilinear ornamentation. An unusual second-floor oculus window studded with multiple decorative keystones is flanked by a pair of wide octagonal bay windows, and the partial-width front entry porch is supported by paired and tripled metal bars that are an unfortunate latter-day replacement for what were once proud Tuscan columns. As mentioned before, William Hart Boughton (1869-1924) was an architect of local prominence, working both on his own account and in a brief partnership with James A. Johnson that lasted from 1895 through '97. Boughton sold his Vermont Street home and studio c. 1903 and left the architectural profession (and Buffalo) a few years later, taking a position as a plant manager of a metal manufacturing company and spending his final years in Washington, D.C. and California.