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English: The Merrill B. and Ethel J. Meyer House, 1110 Amherst Street at Edge Park Avenue, Buffalo, New York, February 2021. One of the first houses built in this North Buffalo subdivision laid out on the land where the Pan-American Exposition took place a quarter-century prior, the Meyer House presents a restrained version of the then-popular Spanish Colonial Revival style: the requisite stucco façade and red tile roof are both present, and the decorative ironwork adorning the front walkway, entrance porch (both facing Edge Park Avenue), and balconet above strikes the right balance between elegance and effusiveness. The minimalism is heightened (lowered?) even further with the trio of round-arched second-floor windows on the left side of the façade, which merely hint at the arcade of which more fully realized specimens of the style feature full-fledged versions. In completely different ways, original residents Merrill Burleson Meyer (1895-1964) and his wife Ethel née O'Dea (1896-1942) were two of Buffalo's most prominent and interesting citizens of their day: he held the post of executive secretary of the Meyer Motor Car Company, a Studebaker dealership, until its bankruptcy in 1930, and by 1940 was a salesman for Texaco, whereas she was not only a pioneering female attorney but also worked as a city planner and had a side hustle as one of Buffalo's foremost amateur stage actresses. The two of them lived in the house from its completion in 1926 until her death, and Merrill continued there alone as a widower until selling the place about 1947.