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English: The René Frey House, 29 West Winspear Avenue at Tyler Street, Buffalo, New York, December 2020. University Heights is in many ways a suburban neighborhood inside the city line - indeed, the nearby University Park Historic District was inscribed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the "Suburban Development of Buffalo, New York" MPL - and the architecture of the c. 1929 Frey House accordingly points the way forward to that of the tract housing that would be erected in neighboring Amherst and Cheektowaga, and in newly minted suburbs across the nation, over the next decade or two. With its modest dimensions, simplified detailing, and asymmetrical façade focused on an entrance set off-center, the house could be considered an early example of the Minimal Traditional style. (The secondary front gable above the front door, steeply pitched and once again asymmetrical, is a nod to the Tudor Revival style then popular in upper-class residential architecture; this influence was very commonly seen among Minimal Traditionals.) A native of Alsace, France, René Frey (1889-1967) was a commercial artist who worked for the Leo Frohe Stained Glass Works, a local company whose handiwork can be seen in multitudinous local Catholic church buildings. He lived there with his wife Florence through at least 1960.